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Cow Creek, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the South Umpqua census division. It stands on Short Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rabbit Mountain quadrangle. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Cow Creek within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Cow Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,086 acres in total. 24 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
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
11 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationCEDAR GULCH
7 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCOW CR.
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictWALKER MOUNTAIN
30 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.2 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationPIER POINT
5 July 2004Fireworks7.5 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationCOW CREEK # 1
31 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersIRON WATER
30 July 1998Naturalunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationSUSAN CREEK
29 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoseburg DistrictCOW PIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cow Creek: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
QuarryStonePast Producer
CleghornStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Dads Creek3.0 miles16
Peck4.1 miles16
Glendale12.4 miles17
Camas Valley12.9 miles11
Fernvale13.1 miles15
Riddle14.0 miles15
Olalla14.7 miles11
Fortune Branch15.9 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.

Wikidata item Q114049802The 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 1119420. 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.