THE TILLAMOOK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Volcanics setting.
Tillamook County has 1,103.2 square miles of land in Oregon. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Tillamook County: Volcanics, Coastal Uplands, Coastal Lowlands, among others.
Pacific-facing coastal mountains support moisture-loving conifers, with marine terraces, dunes and beaches along the ocean edge. Inland slopes and the immediate coast have different vegetation patterns.
Regional context: Coast Range ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Tillamook County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Volcanics72.1%
- Coastal Uplands15%
- Coastal Lowlands10.3%
- Mid-Coastal Sedimentary2.2%
- Willapa Hills0.4%
Finding your parcel within Tillamook County
The atlas lists 21 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tillamook County, including Pacific City, Cape Meares, Pleasant Valley. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tillamook County by land and water
The Census records 229.2 square miles of water within Tillamook County, or 17.2% of its total area. That share is close to Tillamook County’s 17.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tillamook County has 2,446.1 times the land area of nearby Fairview CDP (0.45 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clatsop County, Columbia County, Lincoln County, Polk County, Washington County, Yamhill County within Oregon. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

