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Sherwood, Oregon

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Beaverton-Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97140. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sherwood quadrangle. 20,450 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 193 feet above sea level.

Sherwood within Washington County

Population over time

3 figures

Sherwood grew from 11,794 to 20,450 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
200011,794
201018,194+6,400 (+54%)
202020,450+2,256 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sherwood between 2012 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
25 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictBRIARWOOD
31 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCLEAR CREEK
6 February 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresTualatin River National Wildlife Refuge ComplexTUALATIN RIVER HQ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of Sherwood: 38 past producers, 19 producers. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
O K BrickyardClayPast Producer
O.K. BrickyardClayPast Producer
Coffee Lake PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Compton/Stiller PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Grahams PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stearns Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stiller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tonquin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tonquin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tonquin Quarry/Dales Sand & GravelStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherwood in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2009: 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSherwood$800Outside of Chapters Books and Coffee in Newberg, a tree with estimated diameter 10 to 12 inches was snapped in half. Also, numerous spotter reports just to the north and with similar conditions were reported.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Sherwood$100According to a report from a witness, a tornado touched down briefly near the YMCA in Sherwood and damaged 7 trees.
July 2007HailSherwood-no account filed
May 2003Funnel CloudSherwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Six Corners0.9 miles22
Middleton1.6 miles22
Mulloy3.1 miles22
Chehalem3.2 miles21
King City3.7 miles24
Tualatin4.5 miles24
Norwood4.6 miles22
Kinton5.0 miles22

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 SherwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2639776The 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 1126877. 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.