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Cottage Grove, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Cottage Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97424. It stands on Bennett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cottage Grove quadrangle. 10,574 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Cottage Grove within Lane County

On record in Cottage Grove

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 11 records

Population over time

2 figures

Cottage Grove grew from 9,686 to 10,574 between 2010 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
20109,686
202010,574+888 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Cottage Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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
Equipment and vehicle use29
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony14
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural7
Other causes4
Fireworks3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFDIVIDE
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictBENNETT CK BEE FARM FIRE
7 September 1998Other causes1.0 acresEast Lane Unit - ODFHOOTEN
6 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersELM STREET
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFIR GROVE DUSTY GRAVE
5 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictGOWDYVILL2
5 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFBRYSON SEARS
3 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFDOWENS ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Cottage Grove: 20 past producers, 13 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Putnam DepositAluminum, ClayProspect
PutnamClayOccurrence
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
East PitStonePast Producer
East PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fawn Peak QuarryStonePast Producer
Fawn Peak QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottage Grove in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
June 2005LightningCottage Grove-no account filed
December 1996Thunderstorm WindCottage Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lane 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
Latham1.5 miles13
Saginaw2.5 miles13
Walden3.2 miles13
Veatch3.7 miles13
Walker4.0 miles13
Royal4.2 miles13
Gap4.3 miles11
Dorena (historical)7.1 miles14

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 Cottage GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1007028The 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 1166636. 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.