Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1960 | 7084 | 4 | ||||||
| 1970 | 13466 | |||||||
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| 1990 | 15076 | 41 | ||||||
| 2000 | 15374 | 13952 | 57 | 221 | 349 | 691 | 207 | |
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
- Private Bad Behavior
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A former Coos Bay resident writes:
%u201CCoos Bay / North Bend Oregon, where I grew up, had the recent distinction of becoming the home of choice of the retiring Head Creep of the KKK: he said he couldn’t find a more white place in the US. When I was in High School in the *early 80s,* an African-American family moved into town and I became good friends with a daughter my age. They moved out shortly, and I didn’t find out until years later that someone had burned a cross on their lawn etc. As far as I know there were no repercussions from this. To this day, the HS students will tell you that there is no racism in Coos Bay / North Bend, but I can’t recall the last time I saw an African American in my visits there. I’m optimistic that this is dying down some with each succeeding generation due to failure to be transmitted, and will eventually be only of historical significance perhaps this is just wishful thinking, though.%u201D