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Yaquina, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Toledo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97365. It stands on Yaquina River. The Survey maps it on the Newport South quadrangle. 88 people lived here at the 1930 count. It stands 36 feet above sea level.

Yaquina within Lincoln County

Population over time

4 figures

Yaquina fell from 268 to 88 between 1900 and 1930. 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
1900268
1910289+21 (+8%)
1920310+21 (+7%)
193088-222 (-72%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Yaquina between 1992 and 2018, burning about 19 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 ceremony16
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
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
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreToledo UnitDAVIS SLOUGH
24 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreToledo Unit1000 OLD'S
23 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMCCAFFERY SLOUGH FIRE
21 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBIG CREEK FIRE
10 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSTATION FIRE
7 August 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSURF FIRE
7 August 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFRISBEE FIRE
5 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSOUTH BAY RD. FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Yaquina: 8 past producers, 8 producers, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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
Big Creek IlmeniteIron, Zirconium, Titanium, ChromiumOccurrence
Big Creek-Yaquina Bay-Newport PlacerIron, Titanium, Metal, ChromiumOccurrenceChromite, Ilmenite
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Blattner Creek PitStonePast Producer
Smith TransferStonePast Producer
Goddard SiteClayPast Producer
Goddard SiteClayProducer
St Clair PitClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
St. Clair PitClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Blattner Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yaquina in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 1996Thunderstorm WindYaquina-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
Oysterville1.7 miles17
South Beach2.2 miles17
Newport Heights3.0 miles18
Newport3.4 miles18
Fruitvale3.9 miles11
Holiday Beach3.9 miles17
Toledo4.0 miles11
Sunnyridge4.6 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 YaquinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8049167The 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 1152697. 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.