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Port Orford, Oregon

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Port Orford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97465. It stands on Gold Run Creek. The Survey maps it on the Port Orford quadrangle. 1,146 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Port Orford within Curry County

On record in Port Orford

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

Port Orford fell from 1,153 to 1,146 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
20001,153
20101,133-20 (-2%)
20201,146+13 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Port Orford between 1992 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning23
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGold Beach UnitPARADISE POINT
5 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHUBBARD CREEK
24 September 2006Smoking2.0 acresGold Beach UnitHUMBUG
21 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGold Beach UnitROCKY POINT
19 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGold Beach UnitRETZ CREEK
13 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGold Beach UnitBATTLE ROCK
13 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGold Beach UnitFIR ROAD
8 August 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGold Beach UnitRHODY LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Curry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Port Orford: 15 past producers, 5 producers, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, 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
Cape BlancoOsmium, Platinum, Gold, ChromiumPast ProducerChromite, Gold, Platinum
Cape Blanco MineGold, Platinum, OsmiumPast Producer
Hubbard Creek Beach PlacerGold, Platinum, ChromiumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Hubbard Creek Beach PlacerGold, PGE, ChromiumOccurrence
Meek's PlacerGold, Platinum, Chromium, Osmium, IridiumPast ProducerBeach Placer
Meeks MineGold, Osmium, IridiumPast Producer
Anderson SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wahl SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Anderson SiteStonePast Producer
Griffith PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Curry County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Orford in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2010: 1 heavy rain, 1 storm surge/tide, 1 tornado. 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
February 1998Storm Surge/TidePort Orford$300,000no account filed
October 2010Tornado (EF0)Port Orford-A blogger took a picture of a waterspout off of Humbug Mountain and posted it. This event was not reported directly to the NWS. No damage or injuries were reported.
January 1998Heavy RainPort Orford-2.24 inches of rainfall was recorded in 8 hours.

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
Sixes5.2 miles18
Plum Trees8.8 miles18
Denmark10.2 miles18
Lakeport (historical)10.9 miles18
Langlois12.5 miles18
Ophir14.0 miles17
Nesika Beach17.1 miles17
Eckley (historical)17.8 miles18

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 Port OrfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q996786The 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 1147902. 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.