Wallooskee River
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The Wallooskee River (also known as the Walluski River) is a tributary of the Youngs River, about Template:Convert long, in northwest Oregon in the United States. It drains a small area of the foothills of the Coast Range near the mouth of the Columbia River. The Youngs River is a tributary of the Columbia River.
It rises southwest of Astoria in a northern Clatsop County at Template:Coord. It flows generally west in a winding course. About a mile (1.6 km) before its mouth, it receives the Little Wallooskee River from the right at Template:Coord which flows about Template:Convert from its source at Template:Coord. The Wallooskee enters Youngs River from the east at the south end of Youngs Bay, approximately Template:Convert south of Astoria.
Walluski
The name of the river was formerly spelled "Walluski" but the Board on Geographic Names changed it to "Wallooskee" in 1975.<ref name="gnis"/> Although there is not a formal settlement by the name of Walluski, Oregon, the Olney-Walluski area is considered a community by local residents and the Walluski area was a census precinct as recently as 1950.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As of 1892, there was a Walluski School.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The school was located near Oregon State University's John Jacob Astor Agricultural Experiment Station, that was later used as the Clatsop Community College farm and today is the site of the Clatsop County Fairgrounds.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
There is also a Walluski soil series named for the area.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>