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Gold Hill, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Sams Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97525. It stands on Kane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gold Hill quadrangle. 1,335 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,085 feet above sea level.

Gold Hill within Jackson County

On record in Gold Hill

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 5 records

Population over time

11 figures

Gold Hill grew from 385 to 1,335 between 1900 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
1900385
1920422+37 (+10%)
1930502+80 (+19%)
1950619+117 (+23%)
1960608-11 (-2%)
1970603-5 (-1%)
1980904+301 (+50%)
1990964+60 (+7%)
20001,073+109 (+11%)
20101,220+147 (+14%)
20201,335+115 (+9%)

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

392 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 392 fires within 5 miles of Gold Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 757 acres in total. 66 started naturally. 49 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
Equipment and vehicle use93
Natural66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Arson/incendiarism49
Debris and open burning35
Recreation and ceremony25
Smoking22
Power generation/transmission/distribution20
Fireworks11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Other causes6
Railroad operations and maintenance6

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedford DistrictROGUE RIVER HWY
9 September 2004Railroad operations and maintenance12 acresMedford UnitRR MP 449.5
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedford DistrictMAPLE LANE
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedford UnitWILLOW SPRINGS
7 September 1994Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGrants Pass UnitPOWER POLE #R5436
6 September 2003Naturalunder an acreMedford Unit1567 SARDINE
6 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGrants Pass UnitP P # R-2569
6 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMedford UnitPP#12182

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 210 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 210 workings within 5 miles of Gold Hill: 90 past producers, 51 occurrences, 35 prospects, 31 producers. 31 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Blanche ClaimGold, Copper, SilverOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Quartz
Blanche ClaimGold, Silver, CopperProspect
Braden MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ArsenicProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite
Braden MineGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ArsenicPast Producer
Bristol Silica Co. MineSilica, DolomiteProducer
Gold Hill MineGold, Platinum, MolybdenumPast Producer1857
Gold Hill PocketGold, Molybdenum, PGEPast Producer
Gold Ray GraniteGranite, ClayPast ProducerClay
Gold Ray GraniteGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
HeathSilver, GoldOccurrencePyrite

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Dardanelles0.4 miles16
Tolo4.2 miles23
Foots Creek5.0 miles16
Sams Valley5.7 miles23
Rogue River6.4 miles16
Draper (historical)6.4 miles16
Seven Oaks6.6 miles23
Starvation Heights7.2 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 Gold HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3109513The 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 1639311. 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.