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Days Creek, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the South Umpqua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97417. It stands on Days Creek. The Survey maps it on the Days Creek quadrangle. 271 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 770 feet above sea level.

Days Creek within Douglas County

On record in Days Creek

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

Days Creek fell from 272 to 271 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
2010272
2020271-1 (-0%)

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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Days Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,150 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 6 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
Natural43
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
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
9 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationDAYS CREEK CUTOFF # 2
9 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationDAYS CREEK CUTOFF # 3
9 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationDAYS CREEK CUTOFF # 1
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSTINGER GULCH
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSOUTH MYRTLE
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationKOKOS LANE
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreRoseburg DistrictSOUTH MYRTLE
24 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationSOUTH MYRTLE CAR FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Days Creek: 12 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 producers, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Ben HurGoldOccurrence
Ben HurGoldProspect
Circle S RanchManganeseProspect
FristoeIronPast Producer
FristoeIronPast Producer
Rainy DayChromiumPast ProducerChromite
Rainy Day MineChromiumPast Producer
Sitting DuckManganeseOccurrenceRhodonite
Koko Lane Shale PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Days Creek in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindDays Creek-Heavy rain and one quarter inch hail was also reported with this storm, which lasted approximately ten minutes.

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
Gazley4.0 miles16
Lavadoure (historical)4.2 miles17
Perdue (historical)5.7 miles17
Canyonville6.6 miles15
Nugget (historical)7.0 miles16
Milo7.1 miles17
Myrtle Creek7.2 miles17
Surprise Valley7.4 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.

Wikipedia article on Days CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459671The 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 1119724. 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.