Neah Bay is a census-designated place (CDP) on the Makah Reservation in Clallam County, Washington, United States. The population was 865 at the 2010 census. It is across the Canada–US affix from British Columbia. Originally called “Scarborough Harbour” in award of Captain James Scarborough of the Hudson’s Bay Company, it was misused to Neah in 1847 by Captain Henry Kellett. Kellett spelled it “Neeah Bay”. The name “Neah” refers to the Makah Chief Dee-ah, pronounced Neah in the Klallam language. During the summer months, Neah Bay is a popular fishing Place for sports fishermen. Another kinship is the Makah Museum, which houses artifacts from a Makah village partly buried by a mudslide around 1750. Many people plus visit to hike the Cape Trail or camp at Hobuck Beach. An emergency response pull is stationed at Neah Bay which has saved 41 vessels previously its creation in 1999.

The name “Neah” refers to the Makah Chief Dee-ah, pronounced Neah in the Klallam language. The town is named for the water body Neah Bay, which acquired its proclaim in the ahead of time 19th century. A number of names were used for the bay before it was conventional as Neah Bay. In August 1788 Captain Charles Duncan, a British trader, charted a recess at the location of Neah Bay, but did not meet the expense of it a name. In 1790 Manuel Quimper took possession of the niche for Spain and named it “Bahía de Núñez Gaona” in honor of Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta, viceroy of New Spain. In 1792 Salvador Fidalgo began to build a Spanish fort on Neah Bay, but the project unsuccessful within the year and the cannon and supplies were transported to the more northerly colony of Santa Cruz de Nuca. While Fidalgo was working on the fort George Vancouver charted but did not End at the bay. American traders called Neah Bay “Poverty Cove”. In 1841 the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes mapped the region and named Neah Bay “Scarborough Harbour” in tribute of Captain James Scarborough of the Hudson’s Bay Company, who had provided recommendation to the expedition. The Wilkes map contained the first use of the word “Neah”, but for the bay’s island, now called Waadah Island. The niche was first called Neah in 1847 by Captain Henry Kellett during his reorganization of the British Admiralty charts. Kellett spelled it “Neeah Bay”.

In 1929, the Neah Bay Dock Company, a subsidiary of the Puget Sound Navigation Company, owned a waterfront and a hotel at Neah Bay.

Neah Bay is located at 48°21′56″N 124°36′56″W / 48.36556°N 124.61556°W / 48.36556; -124.61556 (48.365436, −124.615672).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total Place of 2.4 sq mi (6.2 km²), all of it land.