Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Naselle, WA

Naselle is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pacific County, Washington, located about 23 miles from the mouth of the Columbia River.

Its name comes from the Nisal Indians, a Chinookan tribe that formerly lived along the river; the river's name has also been spelled Nasel and Nasal.

The Naselle River flows west past the community toward Willapa Bay, State Route 4 follows the valley through town, and the evergreen-covered Willapa Hills rise close around the valley floor.

Naselle first flourished as a logging town founded by Austin Dewing, and logging remains the community's dominant private industry.

The town was settled primarily by Finnish and Scandinavian immigrants, and Finnish was the largest reported ancestry at the 2000 census, claimed by about a third of residents.

Since 1982, Naselle has hosted a Finnish-American Folk Festival every other year, and in 2006 it co-hosted the national FinnFest USA together with nearby Astoria, Oregon.

A statue honoring founder Austin Dewing was erected in Naselle in 1995 but was later stolen.

Naselle's population was 421 at the 2020 census, nearly unchanged from 419 in 2010 and up from 377 people in 160 households at the 2000 census, the first census in which it appeared as a CDP.

Naselle has an oceanic climate and is one of the wetter communities in Washington, averaging roughly 112 inches of precipitation a year.

Jennifer L. Holm's Newbery Honor-winning novel Our Only May Amelia is set in pioneer-era Naselle — then spelled 'Nasel' — and is based on her own family's documents of Finnish-American frontier life.