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Shady Cove, Oregon

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Shady Cove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97539. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shady Cove quadrangle. 3,081 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,406 feet above sea level.

Shady Cove within Jackson County

Population over time

5 figures

Shady Cove grew from 1,097 to 3,081 between 1980 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
19801,097
19901,351+254 (+23%)
20002,307+956 (+71%)
20102,904+597 (+26%)
20203,081+177 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Shady Cove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 705 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 10 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
Natural55
Equipment and vehicle use39
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Arson/incendiarism10
Other causes10
Recreation and ceremony9
Fireworks8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking7

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 2009Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictROCK SPRINGS
9 September 2002Other causesunder an acreMedford UnitCHAUMA
9 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMedford UnitINDIAN CREEK
8 September 2015Other causesunder an acreMedford DistrictSHADY TRAIL
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedford DistrictSOWELL DR
6 September 2002Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictRRIVER DR
6 September 2002Naturalunder an acreMedford UnitRIGHT FIRE
6 September 2002Naturalunder an acreMedford UnitLEFT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Shady Cove: 12 occurrences, 8 past producers, 7 producers, 5 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium. 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
Roger's Cinnabar PropertiesClayPast Producer
Canyon Creek Mining Co.UraniumOccurrence
Tower Rock ProspectUraniumOccurrence
Tower Rock ProspectUraniumOccurrence
Trail UraniumUraniumOccurrence
Trail UraniumUraniumOccurrence
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Idian Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Indian Creek QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shady Cove in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
December 2015FloodShady Cove-Jackson County Dispatch reported the following: flood waters entering a home in Shady Cove at 13/0142 PST, flood waters entering a home in the 1200 block of Highway 62 in Eagle Point, flood waters 1 foot deep in a home 1 NNE Shady Cove and 4-5 inches deep in another home 1 NNE Shady Cove, and flood waters 4-5 inches deep in a home 1 W White City.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindShady Cove-See below.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Etna (historical)1.0 miles19
Trail2.6 miles20
Rogue Elk4.5 miles20
Derby (historical)6.4 miles18
Spikenard (historical)7.4 miles19
McLeod7.5 miles20
Asbestos (historical)7.7 miles20
Beagle8.0 miles19

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 Shady CoveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458923The 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 1158474. 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.