Pacific City is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States.

Establishing a land claim in Champoeg, he began removing brush and that summer set off a burn to clear debris.

Unfortunately, the wind then reversed direction and strengthened, blowing the blaze around the previous burn and fanning it into the dry Coast Range, where it burned in the Yamhill basin for weeks, consuming 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km2) of old growth forest – the largest such area destroyed in a single forest fire in the United States.

[5] Settlers did not live west of the Coast Range, but the small tribes of Native Americans in the area, already depleted by 80% due to malaria and other epidemics from 1830 to 1841,[6] were driven from their lands.

They had noticed the smoke for several weeks, but were surprised one morning as the bright flames flickered atop the crests of the surrounding hills and rushed down on them.

After several weeks the fires were ended by a heavy rain, but the devastation had been complete: the forests were gone, and the game found to be charred crisp or cooked in the water they had sought refuge in.

However, in 1854, settlers began arriving in the Tillamook Valley, and by 1876 Chief Nestugga Bill and the 200 remaining people of the small tribe were relocated to a reservation on the Salmon and Siletz River.

In 1886 the Linewebber and Brown cannery was started to take advantage of the plentiful fish in Nestucca Bay, shipping 12,000 cans of salmon a year and providing an economic basis for the region until 1926, along with logging and dairy farming.

In 1893, Thomas Malaney platted the town of Ocean Park (now Pacific City) directly across the river from Woods.