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Fair Oaks, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Sutherlin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97462. It lies near Driver Valley. The Survey maps it on the Nonpareil quadrangle. 238 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Fair Oaks within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Fair Oaks fell from 278 to 238 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
2010278
2020238-40 (-14%)

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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Fair Oaks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 17 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
Natural17
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks1
Smoking1
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
9 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationKEYBIRD LANE
9 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationHOG CREEK
9 September 1998Debris and open burning40 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationNORTH OLD TOWN RD.
8 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersPLAT B
7 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFRASER CANYON
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFRASER CANYON
7 September 1992Other causesunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationSPARKS ROAD
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBONANZA MINE

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 Fair Oaks: 11 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Cabin Cr. Marsh Cr. # 75 Quarry # 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cabin Creek, Marsh Creek #75 Quarry # 2StonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel Pit #22Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ralf N HakansonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ralf N. HakansonSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand 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
Old Town4.5 miles16
Oakland4.5 miles16
Union Gap5.4 miles16
Sutherlin5.6 miles16
Hawthorne7.5 miles16
Elkhead8.6 miles11
Rice Hill9.3 miles10
Wilbur9.5 miles16

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 Fair OaksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5429870The 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 1136275. 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.