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Trail, Oregon

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Shady Cove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97541. It stands on Trail Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trail quadrangle. 768 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Trail within Jackson County

On record in Trail

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Trail grew from 702 to 768 between 2010 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
2010702
2020768+66 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

205 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Trail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,298 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 7 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
Natural58
Equipment and vehicle use30
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Other causes12
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking8
Fireworks8
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6

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 UnitDYER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Trail: 17 occurrences, 11 past producers, 9 producers, 7 prospects. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium, Stone. 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
Hanson Ranch UraniumUranium, Tungsten, Vanadium, Thorium, Nickel, CobaltOccurrence
Gaines PropertyClayOccurrenceSedimentary
Gaines PropertyClayProducer
Roger's Cinnabar PropertiesClayPast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Elk Creek QuarryStonePast Producer
Fabricators QuarryStonePast Producer
Indian Creek QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Shady Cove/Long BranchStonePast Producer

Every working 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
Shady Cove2.6 miles19
Rogue Elk2.9 miles20
Etna (historical)3.6 miles19
McLeod6.6 miles20
Asbestos (historical)6.9 miles20
Derby (historical)7.6 miles18
Spikenard (historical)8.0 miles19
Beagle9.9 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 TrailAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709740The 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 1151362. 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.