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Seaside, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Seaside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97138. It stands on Necanicum River. The Survey maps it on the Tillamook Head quadrangle. 7,115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 17 feet above sea level.

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Seaside within Clatsop County

On record in Seaside

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 4 records

Population over time

3 figures

Seaside grew from 5,900 to 7,115 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
20005,900
20106,457+557 (+9%)
20207,115+658 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Seaside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictHWY 101 N
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAstoria DistrictRIPPETT RD FIRE
26 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictCZ CAMP
23 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAstoria DistrictTHOMPSON CREEK
15 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAstoria DistrictBLUE BIRD
13 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSLEEPY SURFER
13 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBROWN BAG
11 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersOSTER RD PILE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clatsop County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Seaside: 18 past producers, 11 producers, 1 occurrence. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Clatsop Peat SoilsPeatPast Producer
Mulligan PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Square Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Edith Gallaher ClayClayPast Producer
Edith Gallaher ClayClayOccurrence
P M West ClayClayPast Producer
P. M. West ClayClayPast Producer
Graprock QuarryStonePast Producer
Graprock QuarryStoneProducer
Hamlet PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Clatsop County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seaside in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 3 flood, 2 tornado, 1 waterspout, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 1996Tornado (F0)Seaside1 hurtno account filed
January 1998Tornado (F0)Seaside$3,000A weak tornado did minor damage to the Kinni-Kinnic Lodge and an adjacent home on Beach Street in Seaside.
January 2021FloodSeaside-Street flooding stranded vehicles along Circle Creek about 1 mile south of Seaside, OR.
January 2018HailSeaside-Picture on Twitter from Seaside showed 2 inch hail. A trained spotter also reported 1 inch hail 1 mile north of Seaside.
January 2011FloodSeaside-With heavy rain and high tides hitting the North Coast Saturday night, Oregon Department of Transportation officials closed Highway 101 two miles south of Seaside from 08:20 PST. The Necanicum River and Beerman Creek overflowed their banks which caused about 15 inches of water on highway 101.
January 2009FloodSeaside-Heavy rain caused the Necanicum River to overflow its banks and flood highway 101 near mile post 23. Approximately 10 inches of water was flowing across the highway.
September 1996WaterspoutSeaside-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clatsop 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
Gearhart2.2 miles16
Surf Pines4.5 miles16
Melville6.2 miles15
Cannon Beach7.3 miles16
Carnahan7.4 miles16
Sunset Beach7.5 miles16
Chadwell (historical)8.4 miles15
Tolovana Park8.6 miles15

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 SeasideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2624434The 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 1136735. 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.