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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Oregon, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oregon City. It lies in ZIP code area 43616. The Survey maps it on the Oregon quadrangle. 19,950 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Oregon within Lucas County

Population over time

2 figures

Oregon fell from 20,291 to 19,950 between 2010 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. 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
201020,291
202019,950-341 (-2%)

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oregon, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Oregon, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,547 shown

Museums hold 1,547 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oregon between 1863 and 1975: 1,337 Animalia, 157 Fungi, 42 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 3 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by AS Hazzard & party, Aborn, R., Anson A. Hinkley and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Erysiphe polygoni DC.Erysiphe polygoni DC.1900F.D. KelseyToledo
Specimen of Lupinus perennis L.Lupinus perennis L.1900Kelsey, F.D.America borealis: Toledo, Ohio in foliis Lupini perennis
A photograph of the species Lepachys pinnata, not of this specimenLepachys pinnata (Vent.) Torr. & A.Gray1863Day, D.F.Toledo
A photograph of the species Nelumbium luteum, not of this specimenNelumbium luteum Willd.1866Day, D.F.Toledo
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1885Collector(s): J. A. SingleyToledo
A photograph of the species Euphorbia commutata, not of this specimenEuphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray1889J. Y. PennypackerToledo
A photograph of the species Moxostoma macrolepidotum, not of this specimenMoxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur, 1817)1892C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1892C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 19471893not recordedToledo, Maumee River
A photograph of the species Apalone spinifera, not of this specimenApalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)1893not recordedMaumee River Basin
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893U.S. Fish CommissionTOLEDO, OHIO
Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedMaumee River Basin

All 1,547 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Oregon: 4 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. 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
(Facility) Toledo Refinery GulfSulfurPlant
White Brothers Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
White Brothers Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ferro Corp Ottawa Chemical DivIronProducer
Interlake Inc/ Toledo, OhioIronProducer
Toledo Pickling & Steel Service IncIronProducer

Every working recorded in Lucas County

Storms nearby

14 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Oregon in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindOregon$75,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees, utility poles and large limbs east of Oregon in eastern Lucas County. The wind gusts also tore some metal roofing off a building.
April 2001HailOregon$50,000Golf ball size hail was reported six miles east of Oregon. Several cars were damaged.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindOregon$20,000Trees and limbs were downed, some on power lines. Significant damage occurred at Maumee Bay State Park where a camper was flipped over and awnings were blown from several other campers. Several buildings were damaged by falling trees and a boardwalk recreational path was also damaged by falling trees.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindOregon$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOregon$4,000A few trees and large limbs were reported down.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindOregon$2,000A utility pole and transformer were downed.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindOregon$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed two large tree limbs.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindOregon-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2011HailOregon-Penny to quarter sized hail was observed.
June 2009HailOregon-Trained spotters in Oregon observed penny size hail for several minutes.
August 2003HailOregon-Penny size hail was observed.
April 2001HailOregon-Dime size hail was reported.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindOregon-Large limbs were downed.
July 1999HailOregon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lucas 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
Ryan0.4 miles18
East Toledo1.7 miles16
Ironville2.3 miles18
Boulevard3.3 miles16
Toledo3.9 miles16
Booth4.0 miles18
Harbor View4.1 miles18
Momeneetown4.2 miles18

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 OregonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q615294The 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 1049043. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.