Chinook is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pacific County, Washington, United States. The population was 457 at the 2020 census.
History
Chinook was the site of the first court in Pacific County in 1853, as well as the county's first salmon cannery in 1870.
Chinook was once a wealthy town based on the salmon harvest. There was no road connection to Ilwaco until 1891, when the bridge was completed across the Chinook River. Later, the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company built a narrow gauge railroad from Megler to Ilwaco, passing down the main street of Chinook. The railroad was dismantled in 1931.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.0 square miles (2.6 km<sup>2</sup>), all of it land. The town is located on Baker Bay, on the north side of the Columbia River just behind Cape Disappointment and the mouth of the Columbia.
Demographics
2000 census
As of the census
The ancestry of Chinook was 21.2% English, 10.8% Norwegian, 8.9% German, and 8.9% Irish.