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The unincorporated community of Glenada lies just across the Siuslaw on U.S. Florence annexed Driftwood Shores hotel and conference center north of town in Heceta Beach in 2008. It is approximately midway between the other major central Oregon coastal cities of Newport and Coos Bay. Geography and climate įlorence is located on the Oregon Coast at the mouth of the Siuslaw River immediately north of Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, at about the same latitude as Eugene, Oregon. In 2020 residents voted to name a new park Exploding Whale Memorial Park. On November 12, 1970, Florence was the site of a famous scene, when town authorities used 20 cases of explosives to try to blow up a dead beached whale, with unintended consequences. Florence, who represented Lane County from 1858 to 1860 another claim is that Florence was named after a French vessel that was wrecked at the mouth of the Siuslaw River on February 17, 1875.

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The Florence area was originally inhabited by the Siuslaw tribe of Native Americans. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 8,921. It lies at the mouth of the Siuslaw River on the Pacific Ocean and about midway between Newport and Coos Bay along U.S. A sign in the Florence Old Town area denoting distances to other cities named "Florence" in North Americaįlorence is a coastal city in Lane County, in the U.S.