BlockDunes City, Oregon
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Dunes City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97493. It stands on Woahink Creek. The Survey maps it on the Florence quadrangle. 1,428 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresDunes City grew from 1,241 to 1,428 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,241 | |
| 2010 | 1,303 | +62 (+5%) |
| 2020 | 1,428 | +125 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Siltcoos Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1941 USGS Siltcoos Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Siltcoos Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Siltcoos Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Reedsport quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
92 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Dunes City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Coos Forest Protective Association | PERKINS LAKE |
| 9 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Western Lane District | ADA PARK 909 |
| 6 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Western Lane District | S.CANARY FIRE |
| 5 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | TREE ISLAND |
| 29 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | COUNTY LINE CC |
| 25 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | LOST LAKE 081 |
| 25 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Western Lane District | NACO FIRE |
| 24 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | BIG STUMP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Dunes City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3021148 | The 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 1639413. 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.