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Winston, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Tenmile census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97496. It stands on Lookingglass Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winston quadrangle. 5,625 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 545 feet above sea level.

Winston within Douglas County

On record in Winston

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 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Winston grew from 4,613 to 5,625 between 2000 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
20004,613
20105,379+766 (+17%)
20205,625+246 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Winston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 405 acres in total. 6 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 use58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning17
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural6
Other causes5
Fireworks4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationGEM DRIVE
8 September 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationCOON HOLLOW
8 September 1999Smokingunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationKENT CREEK
7 September 1994Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationLOOKINGGLASS ROAD #2
6 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTOPAZ DRIVE
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationHIS GLORY LN
4 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHOMESTEAD
4 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersINDIAN NOSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 78 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 78 workings within 5 miles of Winston: 46 past producers, 30 producers, 2 occurrences. 30 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Limestone, General. 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
Fisher PropertyLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Fisher PropertyLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Boggs SiteStonePast Producer
C B Ranch PitStonePast Producer
C B Ranch PitStonePast Producer
ChristensenStonePast Producer
Cunningham QuarryStonePast Producer
Dillard QuarryStonePast Producer
Goodin PitStonePast Producer
L-P QuarryStonePast Producer

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
Civil Bend (historical)1.3 miles17
Dillard1.6 miles17
Brockway2.4 miles17
Round Prairie3.3 miles17
Green3.5 miles18
Oaks5.2 miles18
Lookingglass5.5 miles17
Porter Creek5.9 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 WinstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458875The 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 1129240. 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.