This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers and chilly, wet winters, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F.

Timber also sits in a prominent local frost hollow, and is capable of recording sub-32 temperatures any month of the year.

A railroad was built through the town[4] and served as an important method of transportation for both lumber and passengers between Tillamook, the Willamette Valley, and Portland.

There have been multiples large fires near the area including the Tillamook and Salmonberry burns.

With the introduction of highways, panning out of the large stocks of old-growth lumber, and the decommissioning of the railroad, the town population declined from its former heydays.