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White City, Oregon

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Medford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97503. It stands on Little Butte Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eagle Point quadrangle. 9,090 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.

White City within Jackson County

On record in White City

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

5 figures

White City grew from 5,445 to 9,090 between 1980 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
19805,445
19905,891+446 (+8%)
20005,466-425 (-7%)
20107,975+2,509 (+46%)
20209,090+1,115 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of White City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 265 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 12 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 use51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning22
Recreation and ceremony19
Smoking17
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Fireworks13
Arson/incendiarism12
Other causes8
Natural8
Firearms and explosives use1

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 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedford Unit990 DUTTON
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedford Unit1100 DUTTON
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedford Unit1449 DUTTON
8 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMedford UnitDAHLIA TERRACE
8 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMedford UnitAGATE ACCESS #3
8 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMedford UnitAGATE ACCESS #2
8 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMedford UnitANTELOPE/140
8 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMedford UnitRILEY ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 102 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 102 workings within 5 miles of White City: 66 past producers, 33 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 33 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Chromium. 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
George A McleanChromiumOccurrence
George A. Mclean PropertyChromiumUnknown
140 Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Greb PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Grers Shale PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hansen SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jenco/Little Butte QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Linn Road Shale PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Meridian PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tucker/Gilbert Shale PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White City in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
March 2025FloodWhite City-The Rogue River at Eagle Point rose above minor flood stage of 10.0 ft. at 16/1635 PST, peaked in minor flood stage at 16/1755 PST at 10.29 ft. It then fell below flood stage at 16/1905 PST.
August 1997HailWhite City-no account filed
August 1997HailWhite City-no account filed

Every storm 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
Table Rock3.0 miles23
Four Corners3.6 miles23
Eagle Point3.8 miles24
Mountain View (historical)5.2 miles24
Central Point5.2 miles23
Seven Oaks5.2 miles23
Wellen (historical)5.3 miles24
Tolo6.0 miles23

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 White CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2101079The 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 1128971. 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.