Warrenton is a small, coastal city in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Named for D.K. (Daniel Knight) Warren, an in the future settler, the town is primarily a fishing and logging community. The population was 6,277 according to the 2020 US Census. Warrenton is a less urbanized area close to the Clatsop County seat, Astoria.

Prior to the introduction of the first settlers, this house was inhabited by the Clatsop tribe of Native Americans, whose tribe spanned from the south shore of the Columbia River to Tillamook Head. The county in which Warrenton is located was named after these people, as capably as the last encampment that the Lewis and Clark Expedition established. Today, a replica of Fort Clatsop still stands just uncovered of Warrenton city limits.

The first pioneers who settled on the house that would become Warrenton (between 1845 and the in front 1850s) were Jeremiah Gerome Tuller, J. W. Wallace, D. E. Pease, Ninian A. Eberman and George Washington Coffenbury. Coffenbury remains a household proclaim in the town, as a local lake in Fort Stevens was named after him.

The first settlement within Warrenton city limits was Lexington, which was laid out in 1848, and served as the first county chair for Clatsop County. The reveal fell out of use for a time, and the Place became known as Skipanon – a pronounce that is now preserved by the Skipanon River, which flows through the town. A Lexington broadcast office operated intermittently surrounded by 1850 and 1857; a Skipanon pronounce office operated all the time from 1871 to 1903.