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Charleston, 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 sits by Tunnel Point. The Survey maps it on the Charleston quadrangle. It stands 102 feet above sea level.

Charleston within Coos County

On record in Charleston

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 1 record

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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Charleston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony33
Smoking25
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Fireworks11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism4
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationNORTH SPIT
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
3 September 1993Smokingunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationSUNSET BAY
28 September 2011Smokingunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationSUNSET BAY
25 September 2012Smokingunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMERRITT LAKE FIRE
25 September 2012Smokingunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersPONY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Charleston: 20 occurrences, 10 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Platinum. 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
Mathews M JPlatinum, GoldOccurrence
SengstackenGold, PlatinumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Chickamin MineGold, Platinum, ChromiumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Chickamin MineGold, Platinum, ChromiumPast Producer
Clay PitClayPast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitClayProducer
Unnamed QuarryStonePast Producer
CharlestonSilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Bluff-Head of Brown SloughGold, PlatinumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coos County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charleston in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 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
April 2019FloodCharleston-Flooding, rockfall, and landslides were reported on numerous roads. Debris was stuck under bridges as well.

Every storm 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
Barview1.3 miles21
Crown Point1.4 miles21
Empire4.6 miles22
Libby5.1 miles21
Englewood5.7 miles21
Coos Bay6.2 miles21
Bunker Hill6.7 miles21
Coos City (historical)6.8 miles21

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 CharlestonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474132The 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 1136140. 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.