# Foss, Oregon

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**Foss** is an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) in [Tillamook County](/source/Tillamook_County,_Oregon), [Oregon](/source/Oregon), United States.[1] It is about 4 miles (6 km) east of [Mohler](/source/Mohler,_Oregon) and [Oregon Route 53](/source/Oregon_Route_53), near the [Nehalem River](/source/Nehalem_River).[2] Foss is the site of an important river flood gauge.[3]

Foss was named for Herbert Foss, who owned timber in the area.[4] Foss post office ran from 1928 to 1943, and Foss station on the [Southern Pacific Railroad](/source/Southern_Pacific_Transportation_Company) (now the [Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad](/source/Port_of_Tillamook_Bay_Railroad)) was established shortly after the post office.[4] Camp Nehalem (also known as Camp Foss), a [Civilian Conservation Corps](/source/Civilian_Conservation_Corps) (CCC) camp northeast of Foss, had a Foss mailing address.[5]

## Geography

Foss is only 474 acres in area. It lies in the Northwestern region of Oregon at a low elevation near the ocean surrounded by the highest mountains of the Oregon Coastal Range.

### Climate

Foss has a borderline cool-summer Mediterranean and oceanic climate with cool, extremely rainy winters, with only 2 inches of snowfall annually, while the summers are mild with light precipitation. Because it lies at a low elevation surrounded by higher mountains near the ocean, heavy amounts of moisture get trapped in the region resulting in plentiful and heavy rainfall.

## References

1. *Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer*. 7th ed. [Yarmouth, Maine](/source/Yarmouth,_Maine): [DeLorme](/source/DeLorme). 2008. p. 20. ISBN 0-89933-347-8.

1. ["Nehalem River Near Foss"](http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=pqr&gage=fsso3). [National Weather Service](/source/National_Weather_Service) Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service. Retrieved April 1, 2012.

1. p. 375.

1. ["Camp Nehalem"](http://heritagedata.prd.state.or.us/historic/index.cfm?do=main.loadFile&load=38173.pdf). *Oregon Inventory of Historic Properties Historic Resource Survey Form*. [Oregon State Historic Preservation Office](/source/Oregon_State_Historic_Preservation_Office). February 1992. Retrieved April 1, 2012.

## External links

- [Foss history](http://www.vannattabros.com/geo30.html) from VanNatta Forestry
- [Image of Camp Nehalem](https://www.flickr.com/photos/osucommons/3226842268/) from Oregon State University Special Collections

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