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Sandy, Oregon

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Sandy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97055. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sandy quadrangle. 12,612 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,000 feet above sea level.

Sandy within Clackamas County

On record in Sandy

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Sandy grew from 5,385 to 12,612 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
20005,385
20109,570+4,185 (+78%)
202012,612+3,042 (+32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Sandy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 2 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 burning71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes4
Fireworks3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMolalla UnitBULL RUN TRAILER
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictLILIAN LN
8 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersEAGLE VIEW
8 September 2006Other causesunder an acreMolalla UnitCHICKEN COOP
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMolalla UnitBLUFF CAR FIRE
7 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMolalla UnitDUSTY LANE #1
3 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMolalla UnitTARA LARA LN
3 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMolalla UnitTICKLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clackamas County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sandy: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oregon State Highway Division 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oregon State Highway Division 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandy in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2007: 3 hail. 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
May 2007HailSandy$5,000no account filed
August 1999HailSandy-Another thunderstorm in a very active convective evening produced 1 3/4 inch hail in Sandy.
May 2006HailSandy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clackamas 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
Firwood2.4 miles19
Bull Run2.8 miles19
Kelso2.9 miles26
Douglass Ridge4.3 miles25
Aims4.6 miles19
Cottrell4.8 miles26
Dover4.9 miles18
Eagle Creek5.9 miles25

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 SandyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2416599The 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 1149054. 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.