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Kerby, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Cave Junction census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97531. It stands on Holton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cave Junction quadrangle. 628 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,267 feet above sea level.

Kerby within Josephine County

On record in Kerby

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

2 figures

Kerby grew from 595 to 628 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
2010595
2020628+33 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

372 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 372 fires within 5 miles of Kerby between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,009 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 36 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 use64
Smoking59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Arson/incendiarism36
Recreation and ceremony36
Debris and open burning34
Natural26
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Power generation/transmission/distribution20
Other causes15
Fireworks10
Firearms and explosives use2

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 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGREEN BRIDGE
9 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrants Pass UnitCASCADE DR
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGrants Pass UnitOLD STAGE RD
9 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGrants Pass UnitPP #D4426
9 September 2001Smokingunder an acreGrants Pass UnitREDWOOD HWY
9 September 1995Smokingunder an acreGrants Pass UnitFORKS PARK #2
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMedford DistrictREDWOOD HWY 27752
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedford DistrictREDWOOD HWY 24100

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Josephine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 114 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 114 workings within 5 miles of Kerby: 48 past producers, 28 occurrences, 20 prospects, 13 producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel. 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
Associated Chromite ClaimBoron-BoratesPast Producer
Bear PlacerGold, Iron, Nickel, PlatinumProducerStream Placer
Bear Placers, Inc.Gold, PGE, Nickel, IronPast Producer
BuckskinChromium, GoldPast Producer
Eight Dollar MountainChromium, Nickel, Cobalt, IronOccurrence1942
Eight Dollar Mtn LateriteNickel, Iron, Cobalt, ChromiumProspect1942
Free and EasyNickel, Cobalt, ChromiumOccurrence1942
Free and Easy LateriteNickel, Chromium, CobaltOccurrence1942
Holton Creek LimestoneLimestone, Ultra Pure, Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrenceMarble
Holton Creek LimestoneLimestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Josephine 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
Cave Junction2.2 miles17
Bridgeview5.3 miles17
Althouse (historical)6.1 miles17
Selma6.1 miles18
Holland7.5 miles17
Dryden8.0 miles18
O'Brien9.2 miles17
Takilma10.0 miles17

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 KerbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3708758The 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 1144563. 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.