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Creswell, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Creswell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97426. It stands on Creswell Butte. The Survey maps it on the Creswell quadrangle. 5,641 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 542 feet above sea level.

Creswell within Lane County

On record in Creswell

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Creswell grew from 3,579 to 5,031 between 2000 and 2010. 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
20003,579
20105,031+1,452 (+41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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 Creswell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 was 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 use14
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural4
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
6 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDAVISSON ROAD
27 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresWestern Lane DistrictOAK FIRE
26 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictSPENCER HOLLOW
18 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersENTERPRISE FIRE
17 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWestern Lane DistrictSCHAREN ROAD
15 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictVINE MAPLE
14 September 2007Smokingunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictHOWE ROAD
10 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWITCHER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Creswell: 8 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Nickel. 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
O & C LandNickelUnknown
O&C LandsNickelOccurrence
QuarryStonePast Producer
Sears Road PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sears Road QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Creswell AirportSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Creswell Airport PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creswell in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2010: 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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
December 1999Tornado (F0)Creswell1 hurt, $10,500Tornado was only in Creswell.
December 2010Funnel CloudCreswell-On December 29th at 03:30 PM PST, a thunderstorm produced a funnel cloud, dime size hail and strong winds. A few trees and branches were blown down.

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
Cloverdale3.1 miles14
Walker4.5 miles13
Goshen5.4 miles14
Pleasant Hill5.9 miles14
Saginaw6.0 miles13
Jasper8.3 miles14
Cottage Grove8.5 miles13
Royal8.5 miles13

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 CreswellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2213840The 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 1119540. 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.