Scottsburg, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Reedsport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97473. It stands on Little Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Scottsburg quadrangle. It stands 62 feet above sea level.

Scottsburg within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1955 USGS Scottsburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Scottsburg quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Scottsburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	12
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	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 2002	Natural	32 acres	Coos Bay District	WEATHERLY
7 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Coos Forest Protective Association	HWY 38 MP 12
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	TOM FOOL ROAD
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	MILL CREEK
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LITTLE MILL CREEK
6 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coos Forest Protective Association	MURPHYS CAMP
18 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Coos Bay District	JIMMY CREEK
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	BRANDY BAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Scottsburg: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Nr Mill Creek	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hales Property	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hales Property	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hales Property	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hales Property	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Scoggins Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Scoggins Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Green Acres	1.9 miles	11
Ash	7.0 miles	11
North Fork	11.0 miles	14
Elkton	13.2 miles	10
East Gardiner	14.8 miles	15
Reedsport	15.2 miles	15
Kellogg	15.5 miles	10
Gardiner	16.4 miles	15

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 Scottsburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7438179	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 1149180. 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.