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webpage maintained by the Genealogy Trails Host for
Coos County, Oregon. On these pages you will find
transcriptions of federal Census Records and
Assessment Ledgers to assist you in locating where
and who lived in Coos County.
"Coos County
was created by the Territorial Legislature from
parts of Umpqua and Jackson Counties in 1853 and
included Curry County until 1855. The county seat
was Empire City until 1896, when it was moved to
Coquille. Although trappers had been in the area a
quarter-century earlier, the first permanent
settlement in present Coos County was at Empire
City, now part of Coos Bay, by members of the Coos
Bay Company in 1853. The name "Coos"
derives from a native Coos Bay Indian tribe and
translates to "lake" or "place of
pines."
Oregon
Blue Book
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Records available online for
Coos County, Oregon
