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Beaver, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Beaver census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97108. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beaver quadrangle. 163 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.

Beaver within Tillamook County

Population over time

3 figures

Beaver grew from 145 to 163 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
2000145
2010122-23 (-16%)
2020163+41 (+34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Beaver between 1992 and 2015, burning about 9 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictE BEAVER CRK #1
28 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictCONDOR RD
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestSAND LAKE
21 September 2005Smokingunder an acreTillamook DistrictCAMEL JOE
20 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestTONY CREEK
18 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresTillamook DistrictSAND LAKE
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook District6TH BRIDGE
12 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictBIG HOLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tillamook County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Beaver: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clear Creek Quarry 41034Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kimber PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clear Creek Quarry 41034StonePast Producer
KimberStonePast Producer
Paraguay PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Tillamook County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2009: 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2009FloodBeaver-Heavy rain that fell over the Coast Range combined with snowmelt runoff resulted in the flooding of the Nestucca River.
December 2007FloodBeaver-Power to the flood gage for the Nestucca River near Beaver was lost during the storm, so the flood crest was estimated. Damage occurred mainly to farmland near the area.

Every storm 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
Hemlock2.7 miles16
Hebo3.8 miles16
Sandlake5.5 miles17
Cloverdale6.0 miles16
Pleasant Valley6.2 miles16
Blaine6.5 miles15
Tierra Del Mar7.5 miles17
Woods8.1 miles16

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 BeaverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3295361The 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 1137797. 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.

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.