page_title: Columbia County, Oregon
section_title: Communities
hierarchical_section_title: Columbia County, Oregon / Communities
caption_attribution_description: The Columbia County Sheriff's Office in St. Helens, Oregon.
context_page_description: Columbia County is a county in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the population was 49,351. The county seat is St. Helens. It was named for the Columbia River, which forms its eastern and northern borders.
  Columbia County is part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Portland metropolitan area and is located in Northwest Oregon.
caption: Columbia County Sheriff's Office
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