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Wheeler is a city in Tillamook County, Oregon, on the Nehalem River estuary, that had a population of 422 as of the 2020 census.

Wheeler was incorporated in 1914 and covers 0.52 square miles, all of it land, at an elevation of 52 feet on the northern Oregon coast.

Wheeler is named after Coleman Wheeler, who opened a sawmill in the town and had a lumber business, and Coleman Wheeler is a great-grandfather of Ted Wheeler, who was mayor of Portland, Oregon, from 2017 to 2024.

In 1900, Coleman Wheeler and others incorporated the Wheeler Lumber Company and the Nehalem Transportation Company, and the C.H. Wheeler barge was launched the same year, only to sink with a loss of life in 1901.

A September 1913 Tillamook Observer article touted the town's founding and the riches of the Wheeler Lumber Company, and noted that the Union Fishermans Cooperative Packing Company was operating in the town.

Wheeler celebrated its 100th birthday in 2013, and the city is governed by a council-manager form of government.

Wheeler is listed with ZIP code 97147 and area code 503, and its population has grown in every census since 1970, rising from 262 then to 422 in 2020.

As of the 2010 census, Wheeler had 197 households, and its median age was 57.4 years, with 31.4 percent of residents aged 65 or older, reflecting its character as a retirement and coastal community.

Wheeler is served by the Neah-Kah-Nie School District 56, whose comprehensive high school is Neah-Kah-Nie High School, and the county lies in the Tillamook Bay Community College district.

Wheeler's population in the 1930 census was 280, and it has grown slowly but steadily since, reaching 422 in 2020.