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The coastal city of Coos Bay<1> is located in Coos County.
Coos Bay is 40 feet [12.19 m] above sea level.<2>
Time Zone: Coos Bay lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time.
We searched for American and Canadian communities that also have the name of Coos Bay, but it seems to be unique to this community.
At the time of the 2000 Census, Coos Bay had a population of 15,374 people<3> (or 24.53% of the total population of Coos County). The population of Coos Bay represented 0.45% of the total of Oregon, making it the state's 28th most populous community.
From the Census Estimates for 2008, Coos Bay had a population of 15,665 people. This is an increase of 1.89% since the 2000 Census.
The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Coos Bay.
| Year | Population | Change
Since 2000 | Year-to-Year Change |
| 2008 | 15,665 | +1.89% | +0.15% since 2007 |
| 2007 | 15,642 | +1.74% | |
| 2006 | 15,640 | +1.73% | +0.84% since 2005 |
| 2005 | 15,509 | +0.88% | |
| --- | | | | 2000 | 15,374 | The Last Census |
The following is a sample of nearby communities:
| | Community | Direction | Distance<4> | 2008
Population | Change
Since 2000 |
| | Bandon |  SW | 20 mi [32.19 km] | 3,248 | 14.65% increase |
| | Coquille |  S | 13 mi [20.92 km] | 4,117 | 1.6% decrease |
| | Dunes City |  N | 37 mi [59.5 km] | 1,467 | 18.21% increase |
| | Elkton |  NE | 37 mi [59.5 km] | 163 | 10.88% increase |
| | Florence | N | 42 mi [67.6 km] | 8,694 | 19.7% increase |
| | Lakeside | N | 14 mi [22.53 km] | 1,463 | 6.71% increase |
To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Coos Bay.
Website for Coos Bay
| Official Website: | www.coosbay.org/ |
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For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.
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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Coos Bay: Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Coos Bay? Please visit the Map Page for Coos Bay. |
Footnotes
| <1> | Keep in mind that you might find some variations to Coos Bay: It's frequently the practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Coos Bay may originally have been Coo's Bay. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether. In that case, you may find that a reference to Coo Bay is actually referring to Coos Bay. - Return to Citation |
| <2> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Coos Bay - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others. - Return to Citation |
| <3> | Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Coos Bay. - Return to Citation |
| <4> | Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Coos Bay and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation |
| <5> | All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation |
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