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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.

Yachats within Lincoln County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Yachats 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.

YearPeople Change
2000617
2010690+73 (+12%)
2020994+304 (+44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

25 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony14
Debris and open burning5
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBLODGETT ROAD FIRE
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreToledo UnitSHORE PINE
21 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestCUMMINGS
1 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestCUMMINS CREEK
7 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreToledo UnitSECOND STREET
31 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestYACHATS RIVER ROAD
3 August 2004Smokingunder an acreToledo UnitYACHATS REEDY
26 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestBOB CREEK BURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Uscg StationStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2006Heavy RainYachats-Recorded a 5-day total of 12.2 inches at Cannibal Mountain.
January 1997FloodYachats-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
San Marine3.0 miles16
Tillicum Beach3.6 miles16
Wakonda Beach5.4 miles16
Waldport8.2 miles16
Euclid (historical)8.8 miles13
Bayshore8.9 miles16
Drift Creek9.1 miles13
Bayview9.8 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 YachatsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2066091The 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.