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Cooston, Oregon

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Eastside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97459. It stands on Willanch Slough. The Survey maps it on the North Bend quadrangle. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Cooston within Coos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Cooston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 4 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 burning34
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony17
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Smoking16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural4
Fireworks3
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
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
28 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationKENTUCK WAY
27 September 2001Smokingunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationBARVIEW
26 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersOLIVE BARBER RD #2
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 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Cooston: 24 past producers, 17 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Chromium, Clay. 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
Koostone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Parker Magnet ProcessChromium, IronOccurrence
Parker Magnetic ProcessChromium, IronUnknown
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Coo-Sand Corp.Silica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Coosand Corp.SilicaPast Producer
Unnamed PitClayProducer
BurchChromiumOccurrence
Burch DepositsChromiumOccurrence
EnegrenStonePast Producer

Every working 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
Eastside2.2 miles21
North Bend2.2 miles20
Coos Bay2.6 miles21
Bunker Hill2.9 miles21
Glasgow3.1 miles20
Bay Park3.3 miles21
Englewood3.7 miles21
Millington4.4 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 CoostonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5168087The 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 1140089. 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.