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Umpqua, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1987. It lies in ZIP code area 97471. It stands on Calapooya Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garden Valley quadrangle. 112 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 322 feet above sea level.

Umpqua within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Umpqua between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 25 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
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural25
Debris and open burning13
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersOAKHILL RD. #2
4 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationMILLWOOD DRIVE
29 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationFORT MCKAY RD.
28 September 1993Smokingunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationLOWER GARDEN VALLEY
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationFORT MCKAY RD.
22 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationMODE ROAD
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoseburg DistrictMODE RD
19 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationWILCOX ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Umpqua: 8 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit #744Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit #744Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Coles Valley1.8 miles11
Stephens4.2 miles16
Millwood4.3 miles11
Cleveland4.8 miles16
Tyee6.9 miles11
Riversdale7.3 miles16
Wilbur7.4 miles16
Elgarose7.5 miles16

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 UmpquaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11152100The 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 1128405. 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.