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Wecoma Beach, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lincoln City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97367. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln City quadrangle.

Wecoma Beach within Lincoln County

On record in Wecoma Beach

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

56 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Wecoma Beach between 1993 and 2016, burning about 26 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
Recreation and ceremony35
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
3 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreToledo UnitLINCOLN CITY BEACH
25 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestBURNT TRAILER
2 September 2006Recreation and ceremony8.9 acresToledo Unit2200 ROAD
19 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersE. DEVILS LAKE RD FIRE
18 September 2001Other causesunder an acreToledo UnitEAST DEVILS LAKE
16 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters51ST STREET FIRE
15 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreToledo UnitDRIFTWOOD
14 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersROADS END BEACH FIRE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Wecoma Beach: 12 past producers, 10 producers. 10 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
Baldy Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitClayProducer
Baldy Creek QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Devils Lake QuarryStonePast Producer
Devils Lake QuarryStoneProducer
Ford Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lyons Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wecoma Beach in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 heavy rain. 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 2007Heavy RainWecoma Beach-Storm total precipitaion was 3.50 inches in Lincoln City.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Oceanlake1.0 miles12
Roads End1.2 miles6
Neotsu1.6 miles17
Delake1.9 miles12
Lincoln City2.2 miles12
Nelscott3.2 miles12
Taft3.9 miles12
Three Rocks3.9 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122572507The 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 1637937. 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.