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Yoncalla, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Kellogg-Yoncalla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97499. It stands on Halo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yoncalla quadrangle. 1,021 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 360 feet above sea level.

Yoncalla within Douglas County

On record in Yoncalla

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

Population over time

3 figures

Yoncalla fell from 1,052 to 1,021 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
20001,052
20101,047-5 (-0%)
20201,021-26 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Yoncalla between 1992 and 2020, burning about 224 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use38
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRoseburg DistrictEAGLE VALLEY
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationHALO TRAIL
6 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use23 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationAPPLEGATE ROAD
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationANLAUF ROAD
4 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersI-5 MP 153 SB
4 September 2000Debris and open burning1.2 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationRICE VALLEY
30 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationI-5 MP 151 NB
3 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationDRAIN SECTION ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Yoncalla: 17 past producers, 7 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed PitClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cody-Long Quarry and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wilson ProspectMercuryOccurrence
Wilson ProspectMercuryProspect
Wilson ProspectMercuryOccurrence
Wilson ProspestMercuryOccurrence1937
Baldy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bear Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Calvert (historical)3.6 miles11
Rice Hill4.1 miles10
Drain4.6 miles10
Elkhead6.6 miles11
Leona6.7 miles10
Sunnydale7.5 miles10
Anlauf8.4 miles11
Curtin9.3 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 YoncallaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2314977The 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 1136932. 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.