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Bay City, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bay City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97107. It stands on Patterson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garibaldi quadrangle. 1,389 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 17 feet above sea level.

Bay City within Tillamook County

Population over time

3 figures

Bay City grew from 1,149 to 1,389 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20001,149
20101,286+137 (+12%)
20201,389+103 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Bay City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 316 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony41
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersA STREET
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTillamook DistrictTWISTED GATE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined301 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersPIKE ROAD
6 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictRADAR RD
6 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictSNAG FIRE
4 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictELECTRIC CR
3 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictELECTRIC CREEK
29 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTillamook DistrictOLD DUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tillamook County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Bay City: 23 past producers, 18 producers, 2 occurrences. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
NetartsIron, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, ChromiumOccurrence
Netarts BayTitanium, Zirconium, Iron, ChromiumOccurrence
DarbySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Darby PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kilchis River PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kilchis River PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
LanddoltSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Landdolt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lower Dill BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tillamook 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Idaville1.5 miles16
Hobsonville1.9 miles17
Garibaldi2.8 miles17
Barnegat (historical)3.1 miles17
Bayocean (historical)3.4 miles17
Cape Meares4.3 miles16
Barview4.3 miles17
Tillamook5.2 miles17

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 Bay CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2453865The 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 1161265. 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.