Twin Rocks is an unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States, on the Oregon Coast. Twin Rocks, founded as a summer resort community, was named for two offshore rocks, 100 feet (30 m) high, in the Pacific Ocean.[2] Twin Rocks post office was established in 1914, with William E. Dunsmoor as the first postmaster.[2] The post office closed in 1954.[2]

Twin Rocks
Unincorporated community
Offshore features for which the community is named
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Coordinates: 45°35′52″N 123°56′41″W
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Tillamook
Elevation	16 ft (5 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code	97136
Area code(s)	503 and 971
GNIS feature ID	1136853[1]
Coordinates and elevation from Geographic Names Information System[1]

Twin Rocks is near two other unincorporated communities in Tillamook County, Barview and Watseco. The three communities are all along a 3-mile (5 km) stretch of U.S. Route 101 between the cities of Rockaway Beach and Garibaldi.[3]

Twin Rocks Friends Camp in the community was founded in 1918.[4]

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