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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.

North Bend within Coos County

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

Population over time

3 figures

North 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.

YearPeople Change
20009,544
20109,695+151 (+2%)
202010,317+622 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

173 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony34
Debris and open burning33
Smoking24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationNORTH SPIT
8 September 2020Smokingunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLIBBY LANE
8 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGRINNELL LANE
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSECOND CREEK
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersIDA LANE
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersNORTH SLOUGH
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationNOAH BUTTE
28 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationKENTUCK WAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Parker Magnet ProcessChromium, IronOccurrence
Parker Magnetic ProcessChromium, IronUnknown
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Main Quarry and PlantStonePast Producer
Main Quarry and PlantStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitClayProducer
BurchChromiumOccurrence
Burch DepositsChromiumOccurrence
Coo-Sand Corp.Silica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Coosand Corp.SilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coos County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998WaterspoutNorth Bend-Waterspout formed to the west of North Bend and dissipated offshore.

Every storm recorded in Coos 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
Glasgow2.1 miles20
Cooston2.2 miles20
Coos Bay2.8 miles21
Empire3.0 miles22
Shorewood3.3 miles20
Eastside3.4 miles21
Bunker Hill3.6 miles21
Englewood3.9 miles21

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 BendAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q669104The 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.