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Clatskanie, Oregon

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clatskanie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97016. It stands on Conyers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clatskanie quadrangle. 1,716 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Clatskanie within Columbia County

On record in Clatskanie

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Clatskanie grew from 1,528 to 1,716 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
20001,528
20101,737+209 (+14%)
20201,716-21 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Clatskanie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. None 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 burning21
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreColumbia City UnitCOLVIN ROAD #1
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColumbia City UnitCONYERS CREEK #1
6 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distribution1.2 acresColumbia City UnitGRAHAM CREEK #1
5 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHOWARD DRIVE
3 September 2007Smokingunder an acreColumbia City UnitSTEWART CREEK ROAD #1
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColumbia City UnitLINDBERG RD.#1CLATS AREA
16 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCOUNTY LINE FIRE
16 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreColumbia City UnitOLSON RD #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Clatskanie: 34 past producers, 12 producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A. BergmanSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
A. BergmanSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Paul Zimmerly Road ConstructionSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Paul Zimmerly Road ConstructionSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
T. JohnsonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
T. JohnsonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Columbia CountyStonePast Producer
Crown ZellerbachStonePast Producer
Crown ZellerbachStonePast Producer
Crown ZellerbachStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clatskanie in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2011: 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2011Funnel CloudClatskanie-A concerned citizen sent photos to the local National Weather Service office Sunday evening of a funnel cloud that formed over Clatskanie, Oregon.
January 2009FloodClatskanie-Heavy caused small streams and creeks to overflow their banks that resulted in water covering highway 30 near Clatskanie.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Inglis2.8 miles15
Clatskanie Heights3.1 miles15
Quincy3.8 miles15
Marshland4.2 miles15
Woodson6.3 miles15
Mayger6.8 miles15
Delena7.0 miles15
Kyser (historical)7.3 miles15

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 ClatskanieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q332856The 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 1118980. 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.