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Cape Meares, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tillamook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97141. It stands on Coleman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Netarts quadrangle. 135 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Cape Meares within Tillamook County

On record in Cape Meares

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 1 record

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

Population over time

3 figures

Cape Meares grew from 110 to 135 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
2000110
201099-11 (-10%)
2020135+36 (+36%)

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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Cape Meares between 1992 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 ceremony36
Debris and open burning12
Fireworks1
Natural1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDEER ROAD
8 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersA STREET
6 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictRADAR RD
6 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictSNAG FIRE
3 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictELECTRIC CREEK
22 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictWHISKEY CREEK
21 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictCAMPFIRE TREE
20 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTillamook DistrictBAY OCEAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tillamook County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Cape Meares: 10 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
600 Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
720 Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
746 Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lighthouse QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mt. Meares Quarry 458Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
458 PitStonePast Producer
458 PitStoneProducer
600 Rock PitStonePast Producer
720 Rock PitStonePast 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
Barnegat (historical)1.3 miles17
Oceanside2.1 miles16
Bayocean (historical)2.6 miles17
Netarts3.9 miles16
Bay City4.3 miles17
Hobsonville5.1 miles17
Idaville5.1 miles16
Garibaldi5.5 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 Cape MearesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2513087The 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 1139352. 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.