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Elkton, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Elkton-Drain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97436. It stands on Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elkton quadrangle. 183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Elkton within Douglas County

On record in Elkton

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

3 figures

Elkton grew from 147 to 183 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.

YearPeople Change
2000147
2010195+48 (+33%)
2020183-12 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Elkton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2014Arson/incendiarism25 acresRoseburg DistrictTOM FOLLEY
7 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationHWY 38
4 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreRoseburg DistrictROCKING C RANCH
4 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationHIGHWAY 38
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBUNCHES BAR
25 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationTUCKAWAY LANE
22 September 2003Debris and open burning15 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationHWY 138W MP 2
21 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationVINTAGE DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Elkton: 10 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Agee Bar Pit & PlantStonePast Producer
Agee Bar Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Buzzard Bay BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Buzzard Bay BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
German Bar/LeviSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
German Bar/LeviSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jones BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jones BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Kellogg5.7 miles10
Sunnydale8.7 miles10
Gunter11.5 miles12
Green Acres12.3 miles11
Scottsburg13.2 miles11
Drain13.3 miles10
Tyee13.4 miles11
Ash14.7 miles11

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 ElktonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458931The 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 1120478. 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.