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Pistol River, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Gold Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97444. It stands on Crook Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cape Sebastian quadrangle. 89 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 21 feet above sea level.

Pistol River within Curry County

Population over time

2 figures

Pistol River grew from 84 to 89 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
201084
202089+5 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Pistol River between 1992 and 2019, burning about 340 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks2
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
19 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCARPENTERVILLE ROAD
1 September 1992Debris and open burning10 acresGold Beach UnitWALKER LANE
9 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use8.8 acresGold Beach UnitGLADE CREEK
5 July 2004Fireworksunder an acreGold Beach UnitS PISTOL RIVER
27 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersPISTOL RIVER
22 July 2012Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersARCH ROCK
20 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use148 acresGold Beach UnitPISTOL RIVER
17 July 2009Naturalunder an acreCoos Bay DistrictCARPENTERVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Curry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Pistol River: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Meyers Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Myers Creek QuarryStonePast Producer
Harden Brook ManganeseManganeseOccurrencePyrolusite
Harden Brook ManganeseManganeseProspect
Bankus BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bankus BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
CrockettSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crockett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Curry Co Rd Dept #5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Curry County Road Ept. Pit No. 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Curry County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pistol River in 2 storm reports in 2012: 2 flood. 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
March 2012FloodPistol River-The Elks and Sixes rivers showed impacts from flooding.
March 2012FloodPistol River-The Chetco, Elk, and Sixes rivers were all impacted by flooding. It is likely that other streams in the area such as the Pistol and Winchuck were similarly impacted.

Every storm 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
Carpenterville4.9 miles10
Hunter Creek7.7 miles11
Gold Beach9.1 miles11
Wedderburn10.6 miles11
Knoxville (historical)10.8 miles11
Jerrys Flat (historical)12.3 miles11
Bagnell Ferry13.1 miles11
Nesika Beach15.8 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 Pistol RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459623The 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 1147776. 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.