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.
Population over time
3 figuresBeaver 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 145 | |
| 2010 | 122 | -23 (-16%) |
| 2020 | 163 | +41 (+34%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1942 USGS Tillamook quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Tillamook quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Yamhill River quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
37 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Tillamook District | E BEAVER CRK #1 |
| 28 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Tillamook District | CONDOR RD |
| 24 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | SAND LAKE |
| 21 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Tillamook District | CAMEL JOE |
| 20 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | TONY CREEK |
| 18 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Tillamook District | SAND LAKE |
| 14 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Tillamook District | 6TH BRIDGE |
| 12 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Tillamook District | BIG HOLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Clear Creek Quarry 41034 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Kimber Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Clear Creek Quarry 41034 | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Kimber | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Paraguay Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2009 | Flood | Beaver | - | Heavy rain that fell over the Coast Range combined with snowmelt runoff resulted in the flooding of the Nestucca River. |
| December 2007 | Flood | Beaver | - | 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hemlock | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Hebo | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| Sandlake | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Cloverdale | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Blaine | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Tierra Del Mar | 7.5 miles | 17 | |
| Woods | 8.1 miles | 16 |
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 Beaver | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3295361 | 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 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.







