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Netarts is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Tillamook County, on the north end of Netarts Bay on the northern Oregon coast.

The name Netarts comes from the Tillamook words Ne ta ats, meaning near the water, the big water, or many waters.

At the 2020 census, Netarts had a population of 894, up from 748 in 2010.

Netarts is listed with ZIP code 97143, while many street addresses in the area carry the Tillamook code 97141.

Netarts' post office opened in 1870, and the earliest Tillamook inhabitants settled the Netarts area around 1400.

Netarts Bay is a small, marine-dominated, bar-built estuary on the northern Oregon coast, about 5 miles southwest of Tillamook.

The Netarts Bay Shellfish Preserve, managed by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, lies on the south side of the bay.

Netarts Bay historically supported a commercial fishery for native Olympia oysters beginning in the 1860s, but overharvesting and exports to San Francisco Bay collapsed the fishery in the late 1800s.

The last known naturally occurring Olympia oysters in Netarts Bay were surveyed in 1954, and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife set out about 9 million oyster spat in the bay between 1993 and 1998 to restore them.

The Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery in Netarts Bay is one of the largest providers of oyster larvae for the shellfish industry.