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Coos Bay, 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 lies near Telegraph Hill. The Survey maps it on the Coos Bay quadrangle. 15,985 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Coos Bay within Coos County

On record in Coos Bay

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 12 of 22 shown

Every listing in Coos County

Population over time

3 figures

Coos Bay grew from 15,374 to 15,985 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
200015,374
201015,967+593 (+4%)
202015,985+18 (+0%)

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

182 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Coos Bay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 8 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 burning49
Recreation and ceremony29
Smoking28
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Fireworks8
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Firearms and explosives use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
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

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 Coos Bay: 15 past producers, 10 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Silica, Stone. 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
Main Quarry and PlantStonePast Producer
Main Quarry and PlantStonePast Producer
Pigeon PointSilicaOccurrence
Pigeon PointSilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Unnamed PitClayProducer
BurchChromiumOccurrence
Burch DepositsChromiumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coos County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coos Bay in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2016Thunderstorm WindCoos Bay-A spotter 2SSE Coos Bay reported that a wind gust estimated at 70-75 mph blew off shingles and caused widespread tree damage. Power lines were damaged by the winds and trees, and 13000 people were without power at one point. Time of the wind event was estimated.
March 1998Heavy RainCoos Bay-3.55 inches rainfall in 24 hrs.

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
Bunker Hill1.0 miles21
Englewood1.2 miles21
Eastside1.3 miles21
Bay Park1.5 miles21
Libby2.2 miles21
Millington2.6 miles21
Cooston2.6 miles20
North Bend2.8 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 Coos BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q913266The 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 1166633. 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.