A Piece Of 101 In Wecoma Beach

11I've been in love with the geography of Oregon Coast towns all my life, and it began with LC. 

I was boggled, as a boy, with a town whose population didn't exceed that of my own postage stamp of a burg (Silverton) but somehow managed to have numbered streets as far as 71st in the north and 64th in the south. This, of course, derives from the way LC was formed, as a handful of communities along seven-or-so miles of US 101 in northern Lincoln County came to realize that the whole of Lincoln City would be more than the sum of its parts, and so after some vigorous discussion in the early 1960s, unified and grew from there. 

Even today they retain their historic names: Roads' End (the late-joiner), Wecoma Beach, Oceanlake, Delake, Nelscott, Taft, and Cutler City. The secret to this is, of course, that Lincoln City is long, but not very wide. Even today, while being more than 7 miles from one end to the other, most of the town is less than 3/4s of a mile wide, and the widest part in the north just berely measures a mile and a half in lineal terms. Also, the blocks are fairly small. 

And there's really only one major road from one part of the town to the other. And that's 101. 

Here's part of it in Wecoma.