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Seaside is an incorporated city in Clatsop County, Oregon, on the Pacific Ocean coast, incorporated on February 17, 1899.

The 2020 census counted 7,115 residents in Seaside, and the city had 3,215 households in the 2020 census.

Seaside's name comes from Seaside House, a historic summer resort built in the 1870s by railroad magnate Ben Holladay.

Around January 1, 1806, men from the Lewis and Clark Expedition built a salt-making cairn at the site of present-day Seaside.

Alexandre Gilbert, elected mayor in 1912, donated land for the city's one-and-a-half-mile-long Promenade, known as the Prom, along the beach.

Seaside developed on both sides of the Necanicum River at the southern end of the Clatsop Plains, with Tillamook Head towering over its southern edge.

The city's sandy beaches support beds of millions of Pacific razor clams annually, drawing thousands of visitors.

U.S. Route 101 passes through Seaside, and U.S. Route 26 also serves the city.

Part of Seaside lies in a tsunami inundation zone, and on November 8, 2016, voters approved 99.7 million dollars in bonds to move the remaining three schools out of the zone.

The Seaside Beach Volleyball tournament, begun in 1982 and held on the second weekend of August, is billed as the second-largest beach volleyball tournament in the world, with over 1,800 teams and 192 courts in 2022.