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Roseburg, Oregon

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Roseburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97470. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roseburg East quadrangle. 23,683 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 528 feet above sea level.

Roseburg within Douglas County

On record in Roseburg

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 12 of 19 shown

Every listing in Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Roseburg grew from 21,181 to 23,683 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
201021,181
202023,683+2,502 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Roseburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 735 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 were 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
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Other causes6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks1

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 2020Recreation and ceremony2.9 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSUMMIT DRIVE
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoseburg DistrictORCHARD LANE
6 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTOPAZ DRIVE
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDAWSON RD
3 September 2011Other causesunder an acreCentral UnitBREEZY LN.
3 September 2001Smoking3.9 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationNAVAJO DRIVE
29 September 2000Other causes1.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationKESTER RIDGE
27 September 1999Other causesunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationMOOREA DR. #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Roseburg: 37 past producers, 31 producers. 31 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Boggs SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Compton Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cunningham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cunningham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dan Parker PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Green QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Keller PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kester Road Upper QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Morgan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Morgan SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roseburg in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRoseburg$10,000The Roseburg newspaper reported that gusty winds caused damage throughout the area and two trees fell onto the Stewart Park bandshell in Roseburg. Power outages were also reported.
March 2025FloodRoseburg-Deer Creek at Roseburg rose above minor flood stage of 10.0 ft. at 16/605 PST, peaked in minor flood stage at 16/1445 PST at 15.91 ft. It then fell below flood stage at 16/2250 PST. At 12.0 feet, Widespread flooding of structures and farmland is occurring.
February 2019FloodRoseburg-Deer Creek at Roseburg rose above flood stage (10.0 feet) at 24/1730 PST, crested at 11.78 feet at 24/2030 PST, then fell below flood stage at 25/0430 PST.
February 2011FloodRoseburg-Deer Creek exceeded the flood stage of 10.0 feet at 15/1500 PST, crested at 10.02 feet at 15/1530 PST, the fell below flood stage by 15/1600 PST.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Oaks2.3 miles18
Edenbower2.5 miles17
Calkins3.6 miles17
Green4.1 miles18
Winchester4.4 miles16
Dixonville5.4 miles15
Riversdale5.4 miles16
Melrose6.6 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 RoseburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q846170The 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 1126298. 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.