๐บ๐ธ Astoria is a port city and the seat of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the state of Oregon and was the first American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. The county is the north-west corner of Oregon, and Astoria is located on the south shore of the Columbia River, where the river flows into the Pacific Ocean. The city is named for John Jacob Astor, an investor and entrepreneur from New York City, whose American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site and established a monopoly in the fur trade in the early nineteenth century. Astoria was incorporated in 1876.
The city is served by the deepwater Port of Astoria. Transportation includes the Astoria Regional Airport. U.S. Route 30 and U.S. Route 101 are the main highways, and the 4.1-mile (6.6ย km) AstoriaโMegler Bridge connects to neighboring Washington across the river.
Since 1998, artistically inclined fishermen and women from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest have traveled to Astoria for the Fisher Poets Gathering, where poets and singers tell their tales to honor the fishing industry and lifestyle.
Another popular annual event is the Dark Arts Festival, which features music, art, dance, and demonstrations of craft such as blacksmithing and glassblowing, in combination with offerings of a large array of dark craft brews. Dark Arts Festival began as a small gathering at a community arts space. Now Fort George Brewery hosts the event, which draws hundreds of visitors and tour buses from Seattle. Astoria is the western terminus of the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, a 4,250-mile (6,840ย km) coast-to-coast bicycle touring route created in 1976 by the Adventure Cycling Association.
Three United States Coast Guard cutters: the Steadfast, Alert, and Elm, are homeported in Astoria.
๐จ๐ญ Bellinzona 46.193
๐ซ๐ท Bourg-en-Bresse 46.21
๐จ๐ฆ Charlottetown 46.233
๐ซ๐ท La Rochelle 46.16
๐ท๐บ Pavlovskaya 46.15
๐บ๐ธ Grants Pass -123.317
๐บ๐ธ McMinnville -123.181
Locations Near: Astoria -123.819,46.1863
๐บ๐ธ Aberdeen -123.817,46.967 d: 86.8
๐บ๐ธ Washington County -123.09,45.56 d: 89.6
๐บ๐ธ Chehalis -122.95,46.65 d: 84.2
๐บ๐ธ Hillsboro -122.974,45.519 d: 98.9
๐บ๐ธ McMinnville -123.181,45.212 d: 119.2
๐บ๐ธ Beaverton -122.8,45.483 d: 111.1
๐บ๐ธ Shelton -123.1,47.2 d: 125.3
๐บ๐ธ Olympia -122.9,47.033 d: 117.5
Antipodal to: Astoria 56.181,-46.186
๐ซ๐ท Saint-Pierre 55.478,-21.342 d: 17251.8
๐ซ๐ท Saint-Benoรฎt 55.713,-21.034 d: 17217.9
๐ซ๐ท Saint-Paul 55.27,-21.01 d: 17214.4
๐ซ๐ท Saint-Paul 55.279,-21 d: 17213.3
๐ซ๐ท Saint-Denis 55.457,-20.867 d: 17199
๐ฒ๐บ Mahรฉbourg 57.7,-20.407 d: 17145.2
๐ฒ๐บ Curepipe 57.517,-20.317 d: 17135.9
๐ฒ๐บ Vacoas-Phoenix 57.493,-20.3 d: 17134.2
๐ฒ๐บ Quatre Bornes 57.479,-20.266 d: 17130.4
๐ฒ๐บ Beau Bassin-Rose Hill 57.471,-20.235 d: 17127