Woodson is an unincorporated community in Columbia County, Oregon, United States.^[1] It is located on U.S. Route 30 seven miles west of Clatskanie and three miles east of Westport, on Westport Slough, a tributary of the Columbia River. In December 2007, the debris overflow from the flooding of Eilersten Creek caused evacuations and mud cover on Woodson Road north of the highway.^{[citation needed]}

Woodson was named for Woods Landing on Westport Slough, which in turn was named a man whose surname was Wood.^[2] He would haul logs to the area and dump them into the slough, where they were made into rafts^[2] for transportation to sawmills downriver.