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Scappoose, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Scappoose census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97056. It stands on Coal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chapman quadrangle. 8,010 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 61 feet above sea level.

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Scappoose within Columbia County

On record in Scappoose

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

Scappoose grew from 4,976 to 8,010 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
20004,976
20106,592+1,616 (+32%)
20208,010+1,418 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Scappoose between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersPISGAH HOME RD. #1
8 September 1992Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreColumbia City UnitROCKY POINT
6 September 2002Naturalunder an acreColumbia City UnitJ P WEST RD.
4 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersOTTO MILLER ROAD #1
28 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColumbia City UnitTURLEY ROAD #1
27 September 2009Other causesunder an acreColumbia City UnitHOLADAY RD. #1
27 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreColumbia City UnitRABINSKI ROAD #1
14 September 2012Smoking2.0 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHOLADAY RD. #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 40 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Scappoose: 22 past producers, 9 producers, 8 occurrences, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Bauxite Scapoose - St HelensTitanium, Metal, Aluminum, IronOccurrenceLimonite
Bonser ProspectAluminum, IronOccurrenceBauxite
Scapoose-St. Helens BauxiteAluminum, Titanium, IronOccurrence
Scappoose IronIron, Mineral PigmentsProducerLimonite
Bonser ProspectAluminum, IronOccurrence
OesterAluminum, IronOccurrence
Colport Charcoal IronIronOccurrence
Scappoose Coal ProspectIronUnknown
Scappoose IronIronOccurrenceLimonite
Scappoose IronIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scappoose in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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
October 2018Funnel CloudScappoose-A viewer sent in a photo to a local news station of a funnel cloud over the Multnomah Channel, observed around 11 AM.
December 2007Heavy RainScappoose-Storm total precipitation was 5.97 inches.

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
South Scappoose0.8 miles23
Johnson Crossing1.6 miles23
Chapman Landing2.0 miles23
Warren4.7 miles18
Spitzenberg6.1 miles17
McNulty6.2 miles18
Bachelor Flat (historical)6.5 miles18
Chapman7.5 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 ScappooseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2773268The 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 1126635. 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.