{{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox river | name = Wallooskee River | name_native = | name_native_lang = | name_other = | name_etymology = Wallooska, who in 1851 was the sole surviving member of a small band of Chinookan Indians who lived nearby<ref name = "McArthur">{{cite book | last = McArthur | first = Lewis A. |author2=McArthur, Lewis L. | title = Oregon Geographic Names, Seventh Edition | publisher = Oregon Historical Society Press | year = 2003 | location = Portland, Oregon | page = 1005 | isbn = 0-87595-277-1}}</ref> <!---------------------- IMAGE & MAP --> | image = | image_size = 300 | image_caption = | map = | map_size = 300 | map_caption = | pushpin_map = USA Oregon | pushpin_map_size = 300 | pushpin_map_caption= Location of the mouth of the Wallooskee River in Oregon <!---------------------- LOCATION --> | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = United States | subdivision_type2 = State | subdivision_name2 = Oregon | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = | subdivision_type4 = County | subdivision_name4 = Clatsop County | subdivision_type5 = | subdivision_name5 = <!---------------------- PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS --> | length = {{convert|10|mi|km|abbr=on}} | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location= | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg = | discharge1_max = <!---------------------- BASIN FEATURES --> | source1 = Northern Oregon Coast Range | source1_location = Clatsop County, Oregon | source1_coordinates= {{coord|46|06|29|N|123|40|29|W|display=inline}}<ref name="gnis">{{cite web | work = Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) | publisher = United States Geological Survey | date = November 28, 1980 | url ={{Gnis3|1128610}} | title = Wallooskee River | accessdate = November 16, 2014}}</ref> | source1_elevation = {{convert|886|ft|abbr=on}}<ref name="source">Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.</ref> | mouth = Youngs River | mouth_location = near Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|46|08|49|N|123|48|40|W|display=inline,title}}<ref name="gnis"/> | mouth_elevation = {{convert|3|ft|abbr=on}}<ref name = "gnis"/> | progression = | river_system = | basin_size = | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = | custom_label = | custom_data = | extra = }}
The '''Wallooskee River''' (also known as the '''Walluski River''') is a tributary of the Youngs River, about {{convert|10|mi|km}} long, in northwest Oregon in the United States. It drains a small area of the foothills of the Coast Range near the mouth of the Columbia River. The Youngs River is a tributary of the Columbia River.
It rises southwest of Astoria in a northern Clatsop County at {{coord|46.108165|-123.674857|source:gnis-1128610_region:US-OR_type:river|name=Wallooskee River source}}. It flows generally west in a winding course. About a mile (1.6 km) before its mouth, it receives the Little Wallooskee River from the right at {{coord|46.1423303|-123.780417|type:river_source:gnis-1123307_region:US-OR|name=Little Wallooskee River mouth}} which flows about {{convert|2|mi|km}} from its source at {{coord|46.1395532|-123.735971|type:river_source:gnis-1123307_region:US-OR|name=Little Wallooskee River source}}. The Wallooskee enters Youngs River from the east at the south end of Youngs Bay, approximately {{convert|2|mi|km}} south of Astoria.
==Walluski== The name of the river was formerly spelled "Walluski" but the Board on Geographic Names changed it to "Wallooskee" in 1975.<ref name="gnis"/> Although there is not a formal settlement by the name of '''Walluski, Oregon''', the Olney-Walluski area is considered a community by local residents and the Walluski area was a census precinct as recently as 1950.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://astoria.or.us/page/600 |title= Olney Walluski Fire & Rescue |publisher= Astoria Dispatch 911 |accessdate= November 16, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=32pQAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA14 |title= Population of Counties by Minor Civil Divisions |work= Census of Population: 1950: Number of Inhabitants |publisher= United States Census Bureau |accessdate= November 16, 2014 |page= 14}}</ref> As of 1892, there was a Walluski School.<ref>{{cite journal |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=h7M1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA30 |page= 30 |title= Educational History of Astoria |last= Cleveland |first= Alfred A. |journal= Oregon Historical Quarterly |publisher= Oregon Historical Society |date=March 1903 |volume= 4 |number= 1 |accessdate= November 16, 2014}}</ref> The school was located near Oregon State University's John Jacob Astor Agricultural Experiment Station, that was later used as the Clatsop Community College farm and today is the site of the Clatsop County Fairgrounds.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1921-09-25/ed-1/seq-6/ |title= Walluski School Burns |date= September 25, 1921 |newspaper= The Sunday Oregonian |accessdate= November 16, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.clatsopfairgrounds.com/about.htm |title= About |publisher= Clatsop County Fair & Expo Center |accessdate= November 16, 2014}}</ref>
There is also a Walluski soil series named for the area.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/W/WALLUSKI.html |title= Walluski Series |publisher= National Cooperative Soil Survey |date= November 16, 2014}}</ref>
==See also== *Klaskanine River *List of rivers of Oregon
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Category:Rivers of Oregon Category:Rivers of Clatsop County, Oregon Category:Oregon placenames of Native American origin