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Gearhart, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Astoria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97138. It stands on Skookum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gearhart quadrangle. 1,793 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Gearhart within Clatsop County

On record in Gearhart

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Gearhart grew from 995 to 1,793 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
2000995
20101,462+467 (+47%)
20201,793+331 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Gearhart between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning17
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWADSWORTH #2
8 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictHWY 101 N
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAstoria DistrictRIPPETT RD FIRE
26 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictCZ CAMP
23 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAstoria DistrictTHOMPSON CREEK
2 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictOCEAN DRIVE
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAstoria DistrictWADSWORTH
15 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictSURF PINES LANDING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clatsop 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 Gearhart: 9 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Peat. 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
Clatsop Peat SoilsPeatPast Producer
Hamlet PitStonePast Producer
Pit 11StonePast Producer
DimeoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Halvorson, Carl M. IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Halvorson, Carl M. IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith PropertySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smith PropertySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clatsop County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gearhart in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 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
December 2023FloodGearhart-Highway 101 closed in Seaside at 9 am due to flooding from heavy rainfall and tidal influences.
January 2009FloodGearhart-Heavy rain caused small creeks to overflow their banks resulting in one foot of water covering highway 101 near Gearhart.

Every storm recorded in Clatsop 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
Seaside2.2 miles16
Surf Pines2.4 miles16
Melville4.4 miles15
Carnahan5.3 miles16
Sunset Beach5.4 miles16
Chadwell (historical)6.3 miles15
Jeffers Garden9.1 miles15
Cannon Beach9.5 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 GearhartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q526534The 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 1121084. 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.