The East Fork Coquille River is a tributary, about 34 miles (55 km) long, of the North Fork Coquille River in the U.S. state of Oregon . It begins near Bennett Rock in Douglas County in the Southern Oregon Coast Range .
5-742: The East Fork flows generally west through the Brewster Valley near the rural community of Sitkum to the vicinity of Dora in Coos County . Downstream of Dora, the river turns southwest to meet the North Fork at Gravelford . The mouth of the East Fork is about 10 miles (16 km) from the North Fork's confluence with the South Fork Coquille River near Myrtle Point and 46 miles (74 km) river miles from
10-660: A steelhead acclimation pond along Hantz Creek. Only finclipped steelhead may be caught and kept, and the river is closed to coho fishing. Sitkum, Oregon Sitkum is an unincorporated community in Coos County , Oregon , United States. It is about 27 miles north of Remote in the Southern Oregon Coast Range near the East Fork Coquille River . Sitkum is served by the Myrtle Point post office. A tavern or roadhouse
15-884: The Coquille River mouth on the Pacific Ocean at Bandon . The land in the watershed is used mainly for timber production and farming; commercial forests dominate in much of the region. Named tributaries of the East Fork Coquille River from source to mouth are Knepper, Lost, Dead Horse, Camas, Brummit, China, and Bills creeks. Then come Steel and Hantz creeks followed by Yankee Run. Below that are Elk and Weekly creeks. Frona County Park near Dora and Bennett County Park near Gravelford are campgrounds and day-use areas for picnicking and fishing. The East Fork supports populations of cutthroat trout , steelhead , and Chinook and coho salmon. Frona Park has
20-542: Was a combination restaurant, tavern, rooming house , post office and telegraph station where travelers stopped while horses were changed. There is little left of the community today, and the Sitkum School was converted into a residence. The former teacher's house and the gym still exist on the grounds. Sitkum has a Köppen climate type of CSB (warm-summer mediterranean) , which is most of western Oregon . This Coos County , Oregon state location article
25-481: Was established as a stagecoach stop near a point halfway between Roseburg and Coos City on the Coos Bay Wagon Road about 1872 or 1873. A competitor put up another halfway house nearby and the name Sitkum , a Chinook Jargon word for "half", was selected for the place. Sitkum post office took its name from the tavern. It ran from 1873 to 1964, with one intermission. The Halfway House at Sitkum
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