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Eastside, Oregon

21 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 Coalbank Slough. The Survey maps it on the Coos Bay quadrangle.

Eastside within Coos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Eastside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning46
Equipment and vehicle use21
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Smoking19
Recreation and ceremony17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Fireworks5
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
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
8 September 2020Smokingunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLIBBY LANE
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSECOND CREEK
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersIDA LANE
5 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationSHINGLEHOUSE SLOUGH
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationNOAH BUTTE
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationDANIELS CREEK
3 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationE. CATCHING SLOUGH ROAD
28 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCATCHING SLOUGH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Eastside: 17 past producers, 13 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Chromium, Clay. 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
Parker Magnet ProcessChromium, IronOccurrence
Parker Magnetic ProcessChromium, IronUnknown
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Unnamed PitClayProducer
BurchChromiumOccurrence
Burch DepositsChromiumOccurrence
EnegrenStonePast Producer
EnegrenStoneProducer
Koosrock QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Coos County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eastside in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
January 2012FloodEastside-At 19/2031 PST, a spotter reported that Daniels Creek is flooding onto the roadway. Some residents cannot leave their homes. Coos River is also flooding the roadway. At 19/1730 PST, Another spotter reported that flood waters are 2.5 feet deep in their yard near the confluence of Brummit Creek and the East Fork of the Coquille River. The water level has been steady for the last 12 hours...it backs up in this area due to constricted flow. The Millicoma River also flooded during this event, with residents evacuated. Coos River Highway was shut down from mileposts 13 to 19. Oregon Highway 38 between Reedsport and Scottsburg was closed due to flooding during this event.

Every storm 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
Bunker Hill0.8 miles21
Bay Park1.1 miles21
Coos Bay1.3 miles21
Englewood1.9 miles21
Millington2.2 miles21
Cooston2.2 miles20
Libby2.8 miles21
North Bend3.4 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1120366. 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.