Wildwood, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cottage Grove census division. It lies near Buckhorn Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Kloster Mountain quadrangle.

Wildwood within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1935 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:96000
1942 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Lowell quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Oakridge quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Kloster Mtn quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Wildwood between 1994 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Other causes	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	RRT
5 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ROW RIVER TRAILER
30 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	RAT FIRE
25 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umpqua National Forest	PUTRID
24 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	MIDDLE GULLEY 120
21 September 2010	Other causes	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	LINSEED FIRE
2 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ROW RIVER MOWER
16 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	LOST CR/GOSAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane 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
Dorena	4.5 miles	14
Culp Creek	5.3 miles	14
Dorena (historical)	5.4 miles	14
Disston	6.3 miles	14
Dexter	9.5 miles	14
Walden	9.5 miles	13
Lowell	9.9 miles	14
Trent	11.5 miles	14

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 Wildwood	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22026285	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 1153360. 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.