| Westport, Oregon | |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Oregon#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Westport |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the state of Oregon |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Oregon |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Clatsop |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 1.72 |
| Area Land Km2: | 1.72 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 319 |
| Population Density Km2: | 185.90 |
| Timezone: | Pacific (PST) |
| Utc Offset: | -8 |
| Timezone Dst: | PDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -7 |
| Elevation Ft: | 16 |
| Coordinates: | 46.1292°N -123.3753°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 97016 |
| Area Code: | 503 and 971 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 41-80400 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank1 Info: | 2611784 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.66 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.66 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 481.15 |
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.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4] 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.