Lewis and Clark Cemetery, also known as Riverview, is located in Clatsop County south of Astoria. After leaving Astoria on US-101 S., continue south on Lewis and Clark Road from Miles Crossing junction about three miles to Cemetery Road. The cemetery lies on a bluff overlooking the Lewis and Clark River to the west and extends eastwardly toward a long sloping hill. This cemetery is currently owned by the Lewis and Clark Cemetery Association which was formed in about December, 1986. John H. Reith (son of the original owners, John W. and Emma Reith) donated the cemetery property (about 3.4 acres) to the association. Burials are still being made in the cemetery, but only a few a year.

On 23 January 1896, John W. and Emma Reith recorded the original plat of thirty-three cemetery blocks. Blocks thirty-seven through fifty-four were added on the west side of the original plat on 13 May 1919. Blocks fifty-six through eighty-seven were added just east of the original plat on 30 November 1927. Each block is divided into four lots, and each lot contains six grave sites. Flock fifty-four was designated as the Angel Plot, for baby burials. Burials in the Angel Plot, were designated "BB," instead of "Block 54."

The cemetery may have originally been intended to serve the farming community along the river, but it came to serve other people, too. The Finnish Brotherhood purchased an area in the western part of the cemetery and sold the lots to directly to members of that organization. Some of the Finnish people buried here came from Washington State. The cemetery is also the final resting place for some of the county's indigent population. This cemetery, like others in Clatsop County, had a Chinese Section (which is now unidentified). In 1948 there were 21 disinterments for shipment to China by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Ass'n of Portland, Oregon. There were also disinterments in 1928, but records are not available.

The only remaining sexton's book covers a period from about 1886 to about 1931. Some areas of the cemetery were not shown at all in this book. Other sexton book(s) were presumably destroyed in a fire at the home of John H. Reith (John W. and Emma Reith's son). Community lore suggests that the cemetery was burned off occasionally when overgrown brush and blackberry vines made it inaccessible. Thus, there are empty areas where markers were destroyed and records are
nonexistent. As in other Clatsop county cemeteries, the Finnish Brotherhood kept its own burial records, but they numbered the lots and graves in the opposite direction from the cemetery's records.

In February 1988, the Clatsop County Genealogical Society published the most comprehensive record of this cemetery. They used secondary sources (newspaper microfilm, city directories, and census data) as well as the remaining sexton book. They also had the 1976 headstone reading by youth from the LDS church; and, they did another headstone reading in May 1876.