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Winchester, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Roseburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97495. It stands on Davis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winchester quadrangle. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Winchester within Douglas County

On record in Winchester

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

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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Winchester between 1992 and 2020, burning about 614 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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 use28
Debris and open burning19
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural6
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoseburg DistrictORCHARD LANE
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationSABLE DRIVE
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationDEL RIO RD.
3 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral UnitWEYERHAEUSER DR.
3 September 2001Smoking3.9 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationNAVAJO DRIVE
29 September 2000Other causes1.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationKESTER RIDGE
27 September 1999Other causesunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationMOOREA DR. #2
26 September 2014Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSOUTH RIDGE WAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Winchester: 23 past producers, 20 producers. 20 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
Dan Parker PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Keller PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kester Road Upper QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Morgan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Morgan SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Newton Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Short QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winchester in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 tornado. 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
June 2013Tornado (EF0)Winchester$1,000A neighbor witnessed the tornado for about 1 minute. She heard a very loud noise and looked out the window where she saw a funnel cloud on the ground whipping around very fast and blowing apart a carport canopy sheltering a boat. The carport canopy was held down by four-gallon sized buckets filled with water. These buckets went flying into the boat and fence. The boat received a gash, and the metal pipe fence rail was broken. A satellite dish on the roof was also turned 90 degrees. The tornado then moved into an empty field and dissipated. There was no damage to the house, but the Christmas lights were pulled down.

Every storm 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
Wilbur2.9 miles16
Edenbower3.5 miles17
Riversdale3.7 miles16
Roseburg4.4 miles18
Calkins5.0 miles17
Melrose6.0 miles17
Oaks6.4 miles18
Cleveland6.6 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 WinchesterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473371The 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 1129211. 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.