Pacific City is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,076 at the 2019 census. Pacific City’s main attraction is the Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area.

In 1845, Mr. Johnson, a cook on an English ship sailing along the Columbia River, deserted and traveled next to the Willamette Valley. Establishing a land claim in Champoeg, he began removing brush and that summer set off a burn to clear debris. The Champoeg Fire got out of govern and proceed eastward. Unfortunately, the wind after that reversed organization and strengthened, blowing the flare around the previous burn and fanning it into the ascetic Coast Range, where it burned in the Yamhill basin for weeks, consuming 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km) of old layer forest – the largest such Place destroyed in a single forest fire in the United States. Settlers did not sentient west of the Coast Range, but the little tribes of Native Americans in the area, already depleted by 80% due to malaria and further epidemics from 1830 to 1841, were driven from their lands.

The Nestuggas were one such tribe, that had past been encamped just north of Pacific City near the town of Woods. They had noticed the smoke for several weeks, but were surprised one day as the adept flames flickered atop the crests of the surrounding hills and rapid down upon them. The Nestuggas fled by canoe alongside the Big Nestucca River to the ocean, and took refuge on the half-mile broad bare sandspit along with Nestucca Bay and the ocean. After several weeks the fires were over and the end with by a oppressive rain, but the devastation had been complete: the forests were gone, and the game found to be charred crisp or cooked in the water they had sought refuge in.

Nestucca Bay was a rich fishing area, allowing the Nestuggas to survive despite the destruction of game. However, in 1854, settlers began arriving in the Tillamook Valley, and by 1876 Chief Nestugga Bill and the 200 remaining people of the little tribe were relocated to a reservation on the Salmon and Siletz River.