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Lookingglass, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Melrose census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97471. It stands on Morgan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roseburg West quadrangle. 916 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

Lookingglass within Douglas County

On record in Lookingglass

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

Lookingglass grew from 855 to 916 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
2010855
2020916+61 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

117 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Lookingglass between 1993 and 2020, burning about 252 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 13 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 use36
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism13
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural8
Other causes4
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationGEM DRIVE
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoseburg DistrictBUZZ MOUNTAIN LANE
7 September 1994Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationLOOKINGGLASS ROAD #2
6 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTOPAZ DRIVE
4 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersINDIAN NOSE
3 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLOOKINGGLASS
3 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDOERNER CUT-OFF
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoseburg DistrictSTRICKLAND CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Lookingglass: 16 past producers, 9 producers, 1 occurrence. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. 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
Fort KnoxCopperOccurrence
Christensen PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Looking Glass QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ollivant's PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Paroz PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
C B Ranch PitStonePast Producer
C B Ranch PitStonePast Producer
ChristensenStonePast Producer
Ollivant's PitStonePast Producer
Paroz PitStonePast Producer

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
Melrose5.0 miles17
Porter Creek5.0 miles11
Brockway5.1 miles17
Calkins5.1 miles17
Winston5.5 miles17
Elgarose5.5 miles16
Civil Bend (historical)5.9 miles17
Dillard6.1 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 LookingglassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709650The 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 1136500. 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.