About Clatsop Community College

Clatsop Community College (CCC) is a public community moot with services in Astoria and Seaside, Oregon. The college’s service area includes Clatsop County, portions of Columbia and Tillamook counties and Pacific and Wahkiakum counties in Washington state.

Astoria is a harbor city and the chair of Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1811, Astoria is the oldest city in the give leave to enter of Oregon and was the first American treaty west of the Rocky Mountains. The county is the northwest 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 buccaneer and investor from New York City, whose American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site and traditional a monopoly in the fur trade in the to the fore nineteenth century. Astoria was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 20, 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 (6.6 km) Astoria–Megler Bridge connects to adjoining Washington across the river. The population was 9,477 at the 2010 census.