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Melrose, 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 Stockel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roseburg West quadrangle. 834 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Melrose within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Melrose grew from 735 to 834 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
2010735
2020834+99 (+13%)

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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Melrose between 1992 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 use29
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Fireworks5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes2

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoseburg DistrictORCHARD LANE
9 September 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationGEM DRIVE
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
6 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationBEAR RIDGE
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationDEL RIO RD.
3 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDOERNER CUT-OFF
3 September 2001Smoking3.9 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationNAVAJO DRIVE

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 Melrose: 14 past producers, 12 producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Morgan QuarryStonePast Producer
Morgan SiteStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Looking Glass QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Morgan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Morgan SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Elgarose1.6 miles16
Riversdale2.3 miles16
Calkins3.2 miles17
Cleveland3.5 miles16
Edenbower4.2 miles17
Lookingglass5.0 miles17
Winchester6.0 miles16
Roseburg6.6 miles18

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 MelroseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6813628The 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 1124051. 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.