Rockaway Beach, Oregon
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bay City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97136. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garibaldi quadrangle. 1,441 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 17 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresRockaway Beach grew from 1,267 to 1,441 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,267 | |
| 2010 | 1,312 | +45 (+4%) |
| 2020 | 1,441 | +129 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1937 USGS Nehalem quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Nehalem quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Nehalem quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Nehalem River quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Garibaldi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
49 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Rockaway Beach between 1992 and 2018, burning about 100 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | Tillamook District | JETTY CREEK |
| 5 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Tillamook District | MINNEHAHA |
| 2 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | HOBSONVILLE POINT #2 |
| 2 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | NEDONNA BEACH COMPLEX |
| 17 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Tillamook District | NEADONNA II |
| 13 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Tillamook District | NEDONNA BEACH 3 |
| 12 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tillamook District | LUMBER MILL FIRE |
| 1 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Tillamook District | BARVIEW LOG 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 26 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Rockaway Beach: 13 past producers, 9 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netarts | Iron, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Chromium | Occurrence | ||
| Netarts Bay | Titanium, Zirconium, Iron, Chromium | Occurrence | ||
| Watrous | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Watrous Prospect | Mercury | Prospect | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Keesling | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kessling Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| 4-M Wood Products | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| 4-M Wood Products Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saltair (historical) | 0.6 miles | 17 | |
| Twin Rocks | 1.1 miles | 17 | |
| Manhattan Beach | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| Nedonna Beach | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| Barview | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Garibaldi | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Brighton | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Hobsonville | 4.9 miles | 17 |
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 Rockaway Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2142275 | 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 1166705. 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.








