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Dellwood, Oregon

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Eastside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97420. It stands on Seaman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Daniels Creek quadrangle. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Dellwood within Coos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Dellwood between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,901 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning12
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHWY 138 MP 24
25 September 2005Smokingunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationMORGAN RIDGE
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHWY 241 MM 7
10 September 1997Naturalunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationHENDRICKSON CREEK
10 September 1997Naturalunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationMILLICOMA RIVER
9 August 2000Naturalunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationPACKARD CREEK
24 August 2019Smokingunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDORIS PLACE BOAT RAMP
18 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationBRIDGES CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Dellwood: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Koostone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mahaffy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Morgan W. C. LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
EnegrenStonePast Producer
EnegrenStoneProducer
Koostone Baker QuarryStonePast Producer
Mahaffy QuarryStonePast Producer
Morgan W C LimestoneStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
SmithStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Coos 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
Allegany4.0 miles20
Coos River4.7 miles20
Cooston9.3 miles20
Sumner9.4 miles21
Eastside9.5 miles21
Bay Park10.0 miles21
Millington10.1 miles21
Bunker Hill10.2 miles21

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 DellwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5254230The 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 1119852. 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.