Scappoose Bay

Warren is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Columbia County, Oregon, United States, located on U.S. Route 30 north of Scappoose and south of St. Helens on Scappoose Bay of the Multnomah Channel. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 1,787.The Warren post office was established in 1885; it was named by local resident James Gill for his hometown of Warren, Massachusetts. The post office was discontinued in 1888, but reestablished in 1890 as "Gilltown" because there was another post office named Warren in Umatilla County. The Columbia County office became Warren again in 1895, and the Umatilla County office was closed in 1902; the locality in Umatilla County is now known as Myrick.

McNulty is an unincorporated community in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. It was named for Columbia River steamboat captain John McNulty, a pioneer riverboatman of the Pacific Northwest.

St. Helens High School (SHHS) is a public high school located in St. Helens, Oregon, United States. The city was founded in 1850 and the high school was built in the 1950s. During the 2022-2023 academic year, it served approximately 960 students. An auxiliary filming for the movie Twilight took place at the school in April 2008.

Milton Creek, is a waterway in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. It is 28.5 miles (45.9 km) long, rising in the Oregon Coast Range and emptying into Scappoose Bay – a slough of Multnomah Channel – one of the distributaries of the Willamette River where it enters the Columbia River. The creek was named for a small settlement that was founded at the mouth of the creek in 1846, but later became Houlton because there was already a post office in Oregon with the name Milton (Milton-Freewater). Houlton was later absorbed into St. Helens.The creek is home to several fish species, including steelhead trout, cutthroat trout, and coho salmon. Much of the undeveloped portion of the watershed is heavily forested. The upper reaches of Milton Creek receive around 60 inches (1,500 mm) of precipitation a year, while the lower elevations closer to the Columbia River see closer to 50 inches (1,300 mm).Portions of Milton Creek have been significantly altered since permanent settlement came to the region for both farming and transporting logs. The lower 2 miles (3.2 km) originally flowed into the Columbia River through Jackass Canyon to the north of the courthouse in St. Helens but was relocated to its present path in 1861. Scappoose Bay and Multnomah Channel was later lined with levees to protect from flooding. The Scappoose Bay Watershed Council has undertaken several restoration projects along the creek and other Scappoose Bay tributaries since 2001.

KOHI (1600 AM) is a radio station in St. Helens, 29 miles (47 km) north of Portland, Oregon on U.S. Route 30. It serves the cities of St. Helens, Scappoose, Salmon Creek, La Center, Woodland, and Kalama, the last four of which are located in Washington. The station is owned by The Mountain Broadcasting and is also affiliated with Liberty News Radio Network, Talkstar Talk Radio Network and Accent Radio Network; it is also broadcast live on radiotime.com.First put on the air in 1960, AM-1600 KOHI has been serving eastern Columbia County for over 50 years. It also airs in part of western Cowlitz County, Washington.KOHI features local news, weather, information about school closings, and information about upcoming events; programs it airs include The Alex Jones Show, Liberty Roundtable and locally produced Sports Talk Saturday at 9am. It airs the internationally syndicated program The X-Zone with Rob McConnell, which deals with paranormal topics including parapsychology and UFOs. KOHI's local news program is called Columbia County Magazine, it is hosted by Marty Rowe and features community information and discussions on topics including volunteerism. In 2009, KOHI ran "Lucky Jim's Fishing Show", a fictitious radio sitcom written and directed by local Hillsboro policeman Michael Rouches and producer Alex Rowe somewhat based on Rouches personal experiences. As of August 2011, the station also runs meetings of the Columbia County Board of Commissioners. KOHI also broadcasts old time radio shows under the label KOHI Radio Theatre.It also broadcasts Clean Columbia County's Odd Friday every Friday from 9 am to 10 am. Odd Friday is a local call in talk show with Tammy Maygra, Brady Preheim discussing local political, environmental and other odd topics. Nancy Ward left the show in January 2021. It is the only AM broadcast station in Columbia County.

The Gilbert River is a tributary of the Multnomah Channel on Sauvie Island in the U.S. state of Oregon. About 14 miles (23 km) long, it flows from near the south end of the island into Sturgeon Lake and then north from the lake into the channel, a distributary of the Willamette River.The river loses only 9 feet (3 m) of elevation between source and mouth. It enters the channel about 6 miles (10 km) from its confluence with the Columbia River. Its three named tributaries from source to mouth are Ash, Jack, and Mud sloughs, and it connects by water to a complex of lakes across the island including Steelman, Round, Gay, Racetrack, Malarky, and McNary, as well as Sturgeon.The river is navigable by canoes and shallow-draft boats between Sturgeon Lake and the mouth. A mooring float with no shore access lies about a quarter mile from the mouth.The stream was named for a Hudson's Bay Company employee, a French Canadian named Gilbert, said to have drowned in the river. Gilbert was a trapper during the fur-trading era.

Coon Island is an island in the Multnomah Channel in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. The entire island is a park known as JJ Collins Marine Memorial Park. Coon Island includes docks on both sides, and is primarily used for recreational activities such as picnicking, boating, camping, and birdwatching.

St. Helens is the county seat of Columbia County, Oregon. It was founded by Captain Henry Montgomery Knighton, a native of New England, in 1845, as "Plymouth". The name was changed to St. Helens in the latter part of 1850 for its view of Mount St. Helens, roughly 39 miles (63 km) away in Washington. The city is about 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Portland. Its population was 12,883 at the 2010 census.

Nob Hill Nature Park is a 6-acre oak woodland located in St. Helens, Oregon, 30 miles (48 km) north of Portland, Oregon. Situated on a basalt bluff, it overlooks the Columbia River, at the point where Multnomah Channel joins the Columbia. Notable flora include white oak trees (Quercus garryana), as well as native wildflowers such as camas, trillium, iris, and larkspur. A variety of invasive species are also present, including blackberry, English ivy, Lunaria (or money plant), vinca, mullein, thistle, and tansy. It is maintained by a community group (The Friends of Nob Hill Nature Park) which holds volunteer work parties twice yearly, in April and November. The proposed goal of maintenance activities is to return the park to a more natural and historically representative state, i.e. by removing invasive plants and planting native ones. These efforts are co-sponsored by a community partner group, Scappoose Bay Watershed Council. It is thought that this area was travelled through by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Parking is located near the park's main trailhead at 451 Plymouth St, St. Helens, OR 97051. Photos from the park are available on the city's website. The park is open from dawn to dusk. Dogs must be leashed.

The Multnomah Channel is a 21.5-mile (34.6 km) distributary of the Willamette River. It diverges from the main stem a few miles upstream of the main stem's confluence with the Columbia River in Multnomah County in the U.S. state of Oregon. The channel flows northwest then north around Sauvie Island to meet the Columbia River near the city of St. Helens, in Columbia County. Chinook people, the Multnomahs, lived in villages along the channel at the time of European exploration of the Columbia River in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Flanked in the 21st century by moorages, marinas, and parks, and populated by a wide variety of fish, the channel offers many opportunities for recreation.