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Dads 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 lies in ZIP code area 97469. It stands on Little Dads Creek. The Survey maps it on the Live Oak Mountain quadrangle. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Dads 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Dads Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34,072 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 5 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
Natural26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
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
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.
6 August 2008Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationMP 8 COW CREEK
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictWALKER MOUNTAIN
30 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.2 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationPIER POINT
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined16,436 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHORSE PRAIRIE
21 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationCOW CREEK ROAD
16 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationSALT COW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Dads Creek: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Copper. 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
Cow CreekSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cow CreekSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Green CopperCopperOccurrence
Green Copper ClaimCopperOccurrence
QuarryStonePast Producer
Slaughter Pen PitStonePast Producer
CleghornStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Slaughter Pen PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Linda MarieChromiumPast ProducerChromite

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dads Creek in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 flood. 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
March 2025FloodDads Creek-Cow Creek near Riddle rose above minor flood stage of 22.0 ft. at 16/955 PST, peaked in moderate flood stage at 16/1545 PST at 25.64 ft. It then fell below flood stage at 16/2227 PST. At 22.0 feet, flooding of low-lying fields and structures begins at this point.

Every storm 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
Peck1.2 miles16
Cow Creek3.0 miles16
Riddle11.2 miles15
Camas Valley11.6 miles11
Olalla12.2 miles11
Fernvale12.6 miles15
Glendale12.9 miles17
Surprise Valley14.0 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 Q114050181The 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 1136199. 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.