North Fork, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Reedsport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97467. It stands on Railroad Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Fork quadrangle. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

North Fork within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1919 USGS Earl quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Goodwin Peak quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Goodwin Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS North Fork quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of North Fork between 1992 and 2020, burning about 240 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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 burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
17 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	SPENCER CREEK 0917
10 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Western Lane District	NORK FORK FIRE
9 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	NOEL RIDGE
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	WASSON CREEK
3 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Coos Forest Protective Association	SMITH RIVER ROAD
19 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Western Lane District	PERKINS HIKE FIRE
8 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	NORTH FORK FIRE
30 July 1996	Recreation and ceremony	17 acres	Siuslaw National Forest	SULPHUR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

East Gardiner

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
East Gardiner	9.5 miles	15
Green Acres	10.5 miles	11
Gardiner	10.5 miles	15
Reedsport	10.8 miles	15
Scottsburg	11.0 miles	11
Umpqua City (historical)	13.8 miles	15
Willard (historical)	15.1 miles	15
Winchester Bay	15.2 miles	15

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.

Wikidata item Q114182058

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 1135613. 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.