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Astoria is a city in Clatsop County, Oregon, and serves as the county seat.

The 2020 census counted 10,181 residents in Astoria, up from 9,477 in 2010, with 4,728 households.

Founded in 1811 as Fort Astoria by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, Astoria is the oldest city in Oregon and the first permanent American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition wintered nearby at Fort Clatsop in 1805-1806, now preserved as part of Lewis and Clark National Historical Park.

Astoria was formally incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 20, 1876.

The first United States post office west of the Rocky Mountains was established in Astoria in 1847.

Downtown Astoria was devastated by fire in 1883 and again in 1922, when dynamite was used as a firebreak during the second blaze.

By the late 1800s, 22 percent of Astoria's population was Chinese, and Nordic immigrants, including Swedish and Swedish-speaking Finns, also shaped the town.

The Ghadar Party was officially founded in Astoria on July 15, 1913.

Astoria's economy historically rested on fishing, canneries, and lumber, but Bumble Bee Seafoods closed its last Astoria cannery in 1980 and the Astoria Plywood Mill, once the largest employer, closed in 1989.