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Tillamook County does not provide mugshot images.
Some of the cities, towns, and places in Tillamook County are Aldervale, Barnesdale, Barview, Bay City, Bayocean, Bayside Gardens, Beaver, Brighton, Cape Meares, Castle Rock, Cloverdale, Dolph, Fairview, Foss, Garibaldi, Hebo, Hemlock, Hobsonville, Idaville, Idiotville, Jordan Creek, Lees Camp, Manhattan Beach, Manzanita, Meda, Mohler, Neahkahnie, Nedonna Beach, Nehalem, Neskowin, Netarts, Oceanside, Oretown, Pacific City, Pleasant Valley, Rockaway Beach, Sandlake, Tierra Del Mar, Tillamook, Twin Rocks, Watseco, Wheeler, Woods
Tillamook County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,390. The county seat is Tillamook. The county is named for the Tillamook or Killamook people, a Native American tribe who were living in the area in the early 19th century at the time of European American settlement. The county is located within Northwest Oregon.
The Tillamook were the southernmost branch of the Coast Salish. They were separated from their more northern kinsmen by tribes speaking the Chinookian languages. The name Tillamook is of Chinook origin (a trade pidgin, which had developed along the lower Columbia.) According to Frank Boas, "It means the people of Nekelim. The latter name means the place of Elim, or in the Cathlamet dialect, the place of Kelim. The initial t of Tillamook is the plural article, the terminal ook the Chinook plural ending —uks." Since there was one village in the area of Nehalem bay; the area was referred to as Nekelim (Ne Elim=singular). There were at least four villages on the south Tillamook bay according to Lewis and Clark; the south bay was called "T-Elim-ook" (the plural of Elim), meaning many villages of Elim. (The Chinook word for water was "chuck" and the Salish word for wetland is "naslex". The popular translation of Tillamook as meaning "land of many waters" seems to be 20th-century fabrication used in the tourist industry.)