Hamlet, Oregon

Hamlet is an unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States.

[1] It is located approximately six miles southeast of Necanicum, in the Northern Oregon Coast Range near the confluence of the North Fork Nehalem River and the Little North Fork Nehalem River.

[2] The town was founded by Finns and according to author Ralph Friedman, the place never had a store, church, post office, or village center.

[3][5] A later Friedman book gives the history of the post office and the Finnish founders of the town.

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