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Winchester Bay, Oregon

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Reedsport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97467. It stands on Winchester Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winchester Bay quadrangle. 462 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Winchester Bay within Douglas County

On record in Winchester Bay

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Winchester Bay grew from 382 to 462 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
2010382
2020462+80 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Winchester Bay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Natural1

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 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTUGMAN HILL
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National Forest420 CC
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestTHIRD BEACH
6 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestSPARROW PARK 4
5 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFIRST BEACH
5 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestSPARROW PK
30 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestSPARROW PARK 6
27 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestSPARROW PARK 18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Winchester Bay: 6 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Reedsport YardStonePast Producer
Winchester Bay PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bolon IslandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bolon IslandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Reedsport Yard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand PitSand 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
Umpqua City (historical)2.3 miles15
Willard (historical)3.9 miles15
Reedsport4.5 miles15
Gardiner5.0 miles15
East Gardiner5.7 miles15
North Fork15.2 miles14
Scottsburg19.0 miles11
Green Acres20.1 miles11

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 Winchester BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1907100The 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 1152475. 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.