Saltair, 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 Saltair Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garibaldi quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Saltair within Tillamook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Saltair (historical) 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	5
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
4 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Tillamook District	ELECTRIC CR
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tillamook County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Saltair (historical): 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
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

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Twin Rocks	0.5 miles	17
Rockaway Beach	0.6 miles	17
Manhattan Beach	1.8 miles	17
Barview	2.4 miles	17
Nedonna Beach	2.8 miles	17
Garibaldi	3.6 miles	17
Hobsonville	4.5 miles	17
Brighton	4.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1166501. 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.