Westport, Oregon

Westport is an unincorporated community and census-designated place on the Columbia River in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 321.
Westport is connected to Cathlamet, Washington, across the river via the Wahkiakum County ferry to Puget Island. U.S. Route 30 passes through the community, connecting it to Astoria to the west and Clatskanie to the east.
Westport is named after "Captain" John West, a millwright and lumberman who settled in the area in the early 1850s. West was a native of Scotland, emigrated to Canada as a young man where he worked in a sawmill on the St. Lawrence River and then came to Oregon via California during the gold rush of 1849. West ran a sawmill and a salmon cannery in the community. The Westport post office was established in 1863 with West as its first postmaster.

Education

It is in the Clatskanie School District 6J.
Clatsop County is in the boundary of Clatsop Community College.
The Westport School won the OSAA "Class B" Boy's State High School Basketball Championship in 1941, and the "Class B 6-Man" State High School Football Championships in 1947 and 1949. The school was closed in 1952 and students in Westport now attend Clatskanie Middle/High School about to the east in Clatskanie.