Steamboat, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the North Umpqua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97447. It stands on Steamboat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Steamboat quadrangle. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.

Steamboat within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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 Illahee Rock quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Diamond Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Steamboat quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Steamboat quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Steamboat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 160,744 acres in total. 45 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	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	131,542 acres	Umpqua National Forest	ARCHIE CREEK
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Umpqua National Forest	CHILCOOT
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Umpqua National Forest	FORK
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Umpqua National Forest	HIGH POWER
28 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.1 acres	Umpqua National Forest	WRIGHT CREEK
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Umpqua National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Umpqua National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Umpqua National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
North Umpqua Village	11.8 miles	11
Hoaglin (historical)	14.5 miles	17
Idleyld Park	15.4 miles	17
Toketee Falls	15.8 miles	14
Peel	16.9 miles	17
Clearwater	17.6 miles	14
Rockland (historical)	18.6 miles	17
Glide	19.6 miles	17

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 Steamboat	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7605394	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 1150372. 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.