North Bend, Oregon
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Coos Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97459. It stands on Pony Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Bend quadrangle. 10,317 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 41 feet above sea level.
On record in North Bend
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 3 records
Coos Bay Bridge NO. 01823listed 2005
Hotel North Bendlisted 2005- Liberty Theatrelisted 2023
Population over time
3 figuresNorth Bend grew from 9,544 to 10,317 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 9,544 | |
| 2010 | 9,695 | +151 (+2%) |
| 2020 | 10,317 | +622 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:125000
- 1898 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1942 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS North Bend quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
173 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of North Bend between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Smoking | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Coos Forest Protective Association | NORTH SPIT |
| 8 September 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | LIBBY LANE |
| 8 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | GRINNELL LANE |
| 7 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | SECOND CREEK |
| 6 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | IDA LANE |
| 6 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | NORTH SLOUGH |
| 4 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Coos Forest Protective Association | NOAH BUTTE |
| 28 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Coos Forest Protective Association | KENTUCK WAY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 35 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of North Bend: 17 past producers, 12 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 unknown. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Chromium, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parker Magnet Process | Chromium, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Parker Magnetic Process | Chromium, Iron | Unknown | ||
| Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Main Quarry and Plant | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Main Quarry and Plant | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Burch | Chromium | Occurrence | ||
| Burch Deposits | Chromium | Occurrence | ||
| Coo-Sand Corp. | Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Coosand Corp. | Silica | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Bend in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 waterspout. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Waterspout | North Bend | - | Waterspout formed to the west of North Bend and dissipated offshore. |
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.
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 North Bend | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q669104 | The 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 1146883. 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.









