56 National Register listings published here, 2 of them National Historic Landmarks · the county-history sources name 1 person · people the book names include J. A. Buchanan (Astoria, 1922) (machine-read).
Every wildfire the federal occurrence
database records inside this county: 486 of them, burning
about 877 acres. 12 started naturally and 9 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within
five miles of it.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
188
Recreation and ceremony
98
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
50
Equipment and vehicle use
43
Misuse of fire by a minor
31
Smoking
17
Fireworks
17
Natural
12
Arson/incendiarism
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
8
Other causes
8
Firearms and explosives use
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The five largest, by the area the report
gives. None of them was recorded as arson.
Date
Cause
Size
Reported by
Name on the report
23 January 2014
Debris and open burning
254 acres
Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters
FALCON
11 November 2014
Debris and open burning
143 acres
Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters
HUG POINT
26 October 2007
Debris and open burning
60 acres
Astoria District
CRUSHER
23 January 2014
Debris and open burning
46 acres
Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters
SHINGLE FIRE
27 November 2002
Debris and open burning
40 acres
Astoria District
ELK MTN
9 December 2017
Debris and open burning
37 acres
Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters
KNAPPA DUMP
11 November 2018
Debris and open burning
35 acres
Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters
SIMMONS FIRE
3 August 2015
Recreation and ceremony
27 acres
Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters
SOUTH JETTY
Every settlement page carries the fires within five
miles of it - see the settlement index below.
Storms,
1957 to 2026
36 of 36 shown
The
NOAA Storm Events Database holds
36 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 2 injuries and about $66,500 in recorded property damage.
Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
Kind of event
Reports
Heavy Rain
12
Flood
7
Tornado
5
Thunderstorm Wind
4
Hail
4
Funnel Cloud
2
Waterspout
1
Lightning
1
The most serious of them, by death, then
injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the
forecast office filed them.
A total of 3.52 inches of rain was recorded at the Astoria Airport weather station from 1 AM to 10 PM. A landslide was reported on Highway 30, blocking one lane and damaging a car. Another landslide was reported on US Highway 103 near milepost 7.
A small tornado touched down during a thunderstorm at Kamper's West Park near Warrenton at 0834 PST. The twister lifted about 20 wooden picnic tables up to 40 feet in the air and dumped them about 200 yards east of the area.
Nickel sized hail fell in the Warrenton area. There were other reports of 0.25 to 0.7 inch hail in the Warrenton and Astoria at about the same time. There was one report of 0.5 inch hail covering the road up to 1 inch deep in Astoria.
With heavy rain and high tides hitting the North Coast Saturday night, Oregon Department of Transportation officials closed Highway 101 two miles south of Seaside from 08:20 PST. The Necanicum River and Beerman Creek overflowed their banks which caused about 15 inches of water on highway 101.
Heavy rain caused the Necanicum River to overflow its banks and flood highway 101 near mile post 23. Approximately 10 inches of water was flowing across the highway.
Heavy rain caused several small stream and creek flooding. Damage included structures in the Plympton Creek and Fishhawk Falls area. A landslide near Hamlet also closed highway 202.
Heavy rain caused small streams and creeks to overflow which resulted in several inches of water over highway 101 near the interchange of highways 101 and 26.
The Survey's mineral resources record
lists 161 workings inside this county. 61 still produce and 100 are closed or unrecorded. Each
settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.
Commodity
Workings
Stone
64
Sand and Gravel, Construction
59
Stone, Crushed/Broken
17
Clay
12
Titanium
3
Zirconium, Iron
2
Silica
1
Peat
1
Titanium, Metal, Iron
1
Stone, Dimension
1
Flagstone
1
Gold
1
Iron, Titanium
1
The least common of them first, because a
county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.
A Story of the Gateway: Being, in Fact, a Truthful Exposition of Astoria and Clatsop County, Oregon; The Gateway of the Pacific to the Great Empire of the Columbia - Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana - Through Which the World Will Trade (1919)
1922: Port of Astoria: Who's Who and What's What in Clatsop County, Oregon; Character Is Given to a Locality by the Men and Women Who Live In It (1922)
The Land of Better Living: Being, in Fact, a Truthful Exposition of Astoria and Clatsop County, Oregon: The Gateway of the Great Columbia Empire of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, Through Which the World Will Trade, to Which the Tourist, the Farmer, and the Manufacturer Will Come. (1925)
The Land of Better Living: Being, in Fact, a Truthful Exposition of Astoria and Clatsop County, Oregon: The Gateway of the Great Columbia Empire of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, Through Which the World Will Trade, to Which the Tourist, the Farmer, and the Manufacturer Will Come. (1925)
5,145 words
The people it describes
1 named
Everyone The Land of Better Living: Being, in Fact, a Truthful Exposition of Astoria and Clatsop County, Oregon: The Gateway of the Great Columbia Empire of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, Through Which the World Will Trade, to Which the Tourist, the Farmer, and the Manufacturer Will Come. stops to write about, with
the section that describes them. Among them are the men who founded the
place and governed the Territory. Each name opens the passage itself, in
the words of 1925.
Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names
Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages,
hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named
watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.
Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.