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Bunker Hill, Oregon

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Coos Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97420. It stands on Coalbank Slough. The Survey maps it on the Coos Bay quadrangle. 1,465 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.

Bunker Hill within Coos County

On record in Bunker Hill

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 11 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Bunker Hill grew from 1,462 to 1,465 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
20001,462
20101,444-18 (-1%)
20201,465+21 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Bunker Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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 burning46
Smoking26
Recreation and ceremony24
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Fireworks7
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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 2020Smokingunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLIBBY LANE
8 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGRINNELL LANE
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSECOND CREEK
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersIDA LANE
5 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationSHINGLEHOUSE SLOUGH
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationNOAH BUTTE
3 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationE. CATCHING SLOUGH ROAD
28 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCATCHING SLOUGH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Bunker Hill: 14 past producers, 11 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 unknown. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Chromium, Silica. 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
Parker Magnet ProcessChromium, IronOccurrence
Parker Magnetic ProcessChromium, IronUnknown
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Pigeon PointSilicaOccurrence
Pigeon PointSilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Unnamed PitClayProducer
BurchChromiumOccurrence
Burch DepositsChromiumOccurrence
Koosrock QuarryStonePast Producer
Main Quarry and PlantStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Coos 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
Bay Park0.5 miles21
Eastside0.8 miles21
Coos Bay1.0 miles21
Englewood1.1 miles21
Millington1.7 miles21
Libby2.0 miles21
Cooston2.9 miles20
North Bend3.6 miles20

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 Bunker HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2182323The 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 1136106. 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.