Ash, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Reedsport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97467. It stands on Soup Creek. The Survey maps it on the Loon Lake quadrangle. It stands 453 feet above sea level.

Ash within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1955 USGS Scottsburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Loon Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Ash between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	OTTER CREEK
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	TOM FOOL ROAD
16 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Coos Bay District	GLEN CREEK
16 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GLENN CREEK
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Coos Forest Protective Association	W FORK HEADWATERS
30 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	UPLAND CREEK
29 August 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Coos Forest Protective Association	CAMP CREEK
27 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Coos Forest Protective Association	SOUP CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Scottsburg

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ash: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Lake Creek Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
	Lake Creek Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Scottsburg	7.0 miles	11
Green Acres	8.6 miles	11
Kellogg	14.1 miles	10
Elkton	14.7 miles	10
Tyee	16.2 miles	11
Willard (historical)	17.1 miles	15
North Fork	17.3 miles	14
Reedsport	17.9 miles	15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Ash	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474008	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1117060. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.