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Nesika Beach, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Gold Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97444. It stands on Parker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ophir quadrangle. 432 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 68 feet above sea level.

Nesika Beach within Curry County

Population over time

2 figures

Nesika Beach fell from 463 to 432 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
2010463
2020432-31 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Nesika Beach between 1993 and 2019, burning about 30 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural5
Fireworks4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCUMMINS CREEK
3 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution5.8 acresGold Beach UnitEDSON ROAD
20 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGold Beach UnitMARCHMONT ROAD
2 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGold Beach UnitNORTH BANK ROGUE
7 August 2012Fireworksunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersOLD COAST HWY
3 August 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGold Beach UnitEDSON CREEK 04
3 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGold Beach UnitTAMS MILL
27 August 2011Other causesunder an acreGold Beach UnitNESIKA LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Curry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Nesika Beach: 18 past producers, 6 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Gold, 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
ClarnoMercury, GoldOccurrencePlacer
Clarno ProspectMercury, GoldUnknown
CollinsGold, Chromium, Titanium, Metal, PlatinumPast ProducerBeach Placer
Parker Electromagnetic Machine ProjGold, PGE, ChromiumProspect
Collins MineGold, PlatinumPast Producer
Parker Electromagnetic Machine ProjectGold, Platinum, ChromiumPast ProducerBeach Placer
Buffington PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wedderburn Ranch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Buffington PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Curry 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
Bagnell Ferry3.7 miles11
Ophir4.2 miles17
Jerrys Flat (historical)4.3 miles11
Knoxville (historical)5.2 miles11
Wedderburn5.3 miles11
Gold Beach6.8 miles11
Hunter Creek8.2 miles11
Pistol River15.8 miles10

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 Nesika BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3710225The 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 1146782. 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.