Yachats, Oregon
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Waldport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97498. It stands on Yachats River. The Survey maps it on the Yachats quadrangle. 994 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 45 feet above sea level.
On record in Yachats
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
Cape Perpetua Shelter and Parapetlisted 1989
North Fork of the Yachats Bridgelisted 1979- US Spruce Production Railroad XII, Spur 5listed 1989
Population over time
3 figuresYachats grew from 617 to 994 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 617 | |
| 2010 | 690 | +73 (+12%) |
| 2020 | 994 | +304 (+44%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1922 USGS Waldport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Waldport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Waldport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Waldport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Yachats quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
25 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Yachats between 1992 and 2018, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | BLODGETT ROAD FIRE |
| 30 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Toledo Unit | SHORE PINE |
| 21 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | CUMMINGS |
| 1 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | CUMMINS CREEK |
| 7 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Toledo Unit | SECOND STREET |
| 31 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | YACHATS RIVER ROAD |
| 3 August 2004 | Smoking | under an acre | Toledo Unit | YACHATS REEDY |
| 26 August 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | BOB CREEK BURN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Yachats: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uscg Station | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yachats in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2006: 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2006 | Heavy Rain | Yachats | - | Recorded a 5-day total of 12.2 inches at Cannibal Mountain. |
| January 1997 | Flood | Yachats | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Marine | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Tillicum Beach | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Wakonda Beach | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| Waldport | 8.2 miles | 16 | |
| Euclid (historical) | 8.8 miles | 13 | |
| Bayshore | 8.9 miles | 16 | |
| Drift Creek | 9.1 miles | 13 | |
| Bayview | 9.8 miles | 16 |
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 Yachats | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2066091 | 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 1152681. 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.









