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Pacific City, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Neskowin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97135. It stands on Horn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nestucca Bay quadrangle. 1,109 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Pacific City within Tillamook County

Population over time

3 figures

Pacific City grew from 1,027 to 1,109 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
20001,027
20101,035+8 (+1%)
20201,109+74 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Pacific City between 1992 and 2018, burning about 13 acres in total. 2 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 burning17
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking2
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle 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
28 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictCONDOR RD
21 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestROCK PIT 112
21 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictRED BARN
18 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersROCKPIT FIRE
13 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersJENCK ROAD
1 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestELK HOOF
1 September 2002Smokingunder an acreTillamook DistrictHUDSON HOUSE
9 August 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictSTUCK - I

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tillamook County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Pacific City: 11 past producers, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clear Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
East PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hurliman PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Johnson Wirth PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Tillamook County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pacific City in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2007: 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
January 2007Heavy RainPacific City-A total accumulation of 2.40 inches was reported in Pacific City.
September 1997Tornado (F0)Pacific City-A resident of Pacific City reported seeing a funnel clouod over the ocean touch down briefly over the ocean and again inland. No damages were reported.

Every storm recorded in Tillamook 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
Woods0.9 miles16
Oretown3.4 miles16
Tierra Del Mar3.4 miles17
Cloverdale3.8 miles16
Meda4.6 miles16
Hebo5.6 miles16
Neskowin6.7 miles17
Sandlake7.3 miles17

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 Pacific CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1746597The 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 1136609. 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.