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Lincoln City, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lincoln City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97367. It stands on Agnes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln City quadrangle. 9,815 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4 feet above sea level.

Lincoln City within Lincoln County

On record in Lincoln City

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

Lincoln City grew from 7,437 to 9,815 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
20007,437
20107,930+493 (+7%)
20209,815+1,885 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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

60 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony40
Debris and open burning13
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestCOBRA
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestCOBRA 2
3 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreToledo UnitLINCOLN CITY BEACH
2 September 2006Recreation and ceremony8.9 acresToledo Unit2200 ROAD
19 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersE. DEVILS LAKE RD FIRE
18 September 2001Other causesunder an acreToledo UnitEAST DEVILS LAKE
16 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters51ST STREET FIRE
15 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreToledo UnitDRIFTWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Lincoln City: 13 past producers, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Unnamed PitClayProducer
Baldy Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Devils Lake Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Baldy Creek QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Devils Lake QuarryStonePast Producer
Devils Lake QuarryStoneProducer
Devils Lake RockStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincoln City in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 2015Heavy RainLincoln City1 killed, 1 hurt, $1,240,000Heavy rain resulted in a multiple of large land slides from Florence to Newport. A landslide in Newport damaged 6 homes and resulted in the evacuation of other near by homes. A car fell into a sink hole in Newport as it opened up a garage. One landslide that struck a home killed an elderly woman and her dog, and injured her husband. A creek near Yachats River Rd pushed a home off of its foundation as it rerouted from the heavy rain. Highway 229 in Siletz flooded. The Siletz River near Siletz and the Alsea River near Tidewater exceeded flood stage. A new daily rainfall record was set in Newport when 3.08 inches of rain on the 17th broke the previous record of 2 inches that was last set in 1925.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindLincoln City$1,500,000no account filed
December 2010Thunderstorm WindLincoln City-Strong, gusty winds were reported at Lincoln City with sustained winds of 35 kts and gusts to 53 kts.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Delake0.3 miles12
Nelscott1.0 miles12
Oceanlake1.2 miles12
Taft1.7 miles12
Wecoma Beach2.2 miles12
Cutler City2.9 miles12
Salishan Beach2.9 miles12
Roads End3.4 miles6

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 Lincoln CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q988751The 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 1158323. 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.