Camas Valley, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Tenmile census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97416. It stands on Kirkendall Branch. The Survey maps it on the Camas Valley quadrangle. It stands 1,135 feet above sea level.

Camas Valley within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1928 USGS Sitkum quadrangle1:125000
1955 USGS Camas Valley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Camas Valley quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Camas Valley between 1992 and 2019, burning about 249 acres in total. 11 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
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Firearms and explosives use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Roseburg District	COURSEGOLD
28 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Roseburg District	QUIET MTN
28 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Roseburg District	SUICIDE CR
24 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	QUIET MT. LANE
21 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Bridge Unit	DENN RD
17 September 2011	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Central Unit	BERRY CREEK
17 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	KINGSWAY
15 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Unit	EAST CAMAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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 Camas Valley: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury. 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
	Baldwin	Mercury	Occurrence
	Baldwin	Mercury	Unknown

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
Olalla	6.7 miles	11
Reston	7.2 miles	11
Tenmile	7.2 miles	11
Porter Creek	9.6 miles	11
Dads Creek	11.6 miles	16
Peck	12.0 miles	16
Brockway	12.7 miles	17
Cow Creek	12.9 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 Camas Valley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5025003	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 1118484. 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.