BlockSearose Beach, Oregon
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97498. It stands on Agate Creek. The Survey maps it on the Heceta Head quadrangle.
On record in Searose Beach
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Ten Mile Creek Bridge No. 01181listed 2005 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Heceta Head quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1942 USGS Heceta Head quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Heceta Head quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Waldport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Heceta Head quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Searose Beach between 1993 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Western Lane District | 907 NOTH 101 AUTO FIRE |
| 7 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Western Lane District | 907 ROCKY KNOLL FIRE |
| 25 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Western Lane District | 0925 TENMILE BEACH |
| 21 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | CUMMINGS |
| 14 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Western Lane District | ROOSEVELT BEACH FIRE |
| 1 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | CUMMINS CREEK |
| 3 August 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Toledo Unit | YACHATS REEDY |
| 26 August 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | BOB CREEK BURN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt Beach | 4.0 miles | 19 | |
| Mercer (historical) | 11.6 miles | 18 | |
| Minerva | 13.6 miles | 15 | |
| Heceta Beach | 13.8 miles | 17 | |
| Reed | 14.5 miles | 15 | |
| Brickerville | 16.7 miles | 15 | |
| Florence | 17.2 miles | 15 | |
| Cushman | 17.4 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.
| Wikidata item Q7441772 | 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 1149196. 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.