Roseburg, Oregon Roseburg, Oregon Roseburg, Location inside Douglas County and Oregon Location inside Douglas County and Oregon State Oregon Roseburg is a town/city in the U.S.
State of Oregon. It is positioned in the Umpqua River Valley in southern Oregon and is the governmental center of county and most crowded city of Douglas County.
Founded 166 years ago, in 1851, the populace was 21,181 at the 2010 census, making it the principal town/city of the Roseburg, Oregon Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Traditionally a lumber trade town, Roseburg is the home of Roseburg Forest Products.
1.2 Roseburg Blast The town/city was titled for settler Aaron Rose, who established a homestead inside the current town/city limits on September 23, 1851. Rose was born in 1813 in Ulster County, New York.
Rose constructed the first building in what would turn into Roseburg, a rough structure made of poles and clapboards with a front room about 16 or 18 feet square; it was used as a grocery store, backed by a dining room and kitchen. Originally, guests could use the floor of the front room to spread their beds or were able to sleep out of doors under close-by oak trees. His first structure served as a roadside inn and tavern for many years.
Roseburg was first known as Deer Creek because it was at the confluence of Deer Creek and the South Umpqua River. In 1854, voters chose Roseburg as the governmental center of county over rival town Winchester.
Rose donated 3 acres (1.2 ha) of territory and $1,000 for the building of the county courthouse, and the meaningful buildings of Winchester were moved to Roseburg before 1860. The spelling was changed to "Roseburg" in 1894. Roseburg was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 3, 1872. The fortunes of Roseburg interval with the lumber industry.
In 1937, Roseburg Lumber opened.
By the 1970s Roseburg branded itself as the Timber Capital of the Nation.
Roseburg Blast Roseburg's downtown was rebuilt, primarily by businesses using cash collected from insurance claims.
The town/city assembled a new bridge over the South Umpqua River on parcels affected by the disaster. Since the incident, it is generally referred to as the "Roseburg Blast" or simply "The Blast".
In 2005, SOPTV produced a documentary examining the Blast and the experiences of those who were involved or witnessed it, entitled The Roseburg Blast: A Catastrophe and Its Heroes. On October 1, 2015, students at Umpqua Community College near Roseburg were attacked by a 26-year-old gunman, who killed nine citizens (eight students and an assistant professor) and injured nine others.
This was the second school shooting in the Roseburg area, the other being a 2006 shooting at Roseburg High School.
In 1968, Bobby Kennedy had given a speech in Roseburg advocating for gun control for the mentally ill and for those with a "long criminal record" of murder. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.20 square miles (26.42 km2), of which 10.01 square miles (25.93 km2) is territory and 0.19 square miles (0.49 km2) is water. Roseburg's altitude is approximately 500 feet (150 m).
Roseburg is positioned near the confluence of the north and south forks of the Umpqua River and the borders of the Umpqua National Forest.
Roseburg has a Mediterranean climate (Koppen Csb borderline with Csa) with cool, rainy winters and very warm, dry summers.
December, with a mean temperature of 42.5 F or 5.8 C, is usually the coldest month, and July, with a mean temperature of 71.5 F or 21.9 C, is the warmest.
In a typical year, there are 27 days where the temperature reaches or exceeds 90 F or 32.2 C, and two days with a temperature of or above 100 F or 37.8 C.
Conversely, the temperature drops to 32 F (0 C) or below 28 times per annum. The record high temperature is 109 F (42.8 C), set on July 20, 1946, and the record low temperature is 1 F ( 18.3 C), set on January 22, 1962. No other day has declined to or below 0 F or 17.8 C, and by the 1981 to 2010 average only 28 mornings fall below freezing.
In the summer, the region has little or no rain and plentiful sunlight on average, 73.5 percent of days in July, August and September are at least partly sunny. On the other hand, the majority of winter days are overcast and rainy amid this period, rainfalls of 8 inches or 200 millimetres per month are not uncommon, with as much as 15.74 inches or 399.8 millimetres amid the record wet month of December 1955.
Roseburg averages 30.7 inches or 779.8 millimetres of precipitation per year, more than half of which falls between November and January.
The wettest "rain year" has been from July 1955 to June 1956 with 50.29 inches (1,277.4 mm) and the driest from July 2000 to June 2001 with only 18.43 inches (468.1 mm).
Climate data for Roseburg, Oregon (Airport), 1981 2010 normals As of the census of 2010, there were 21,181 citizens , 9,081 homeholds, and 5,177 families residing in the city.
There were 9,732 housing units at an average density of 972.2 per square mile (375.4/km2).
There were 9,081 homeholds of which 27.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 39.2% were married couples living together, 13.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.6% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 43.0% were non-families.
35.5% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 16.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.84.
The median age in the town/city was 41.1 years.
21.7% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 9.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23.8% were from 25 to 44; 26.2% were from 45 to 64; and 19.1% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 8,838 housing units at an average density of 958.6 per square mile (370.1/km ).
There were 8,237 homeholds out of which 28.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 46.2% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 38.1% were non-families.
31.6% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 13.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.88.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.2% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 18.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $31,250, and the median income for a family was $40,172.
About 11.0% of families and 15.1% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 18.9% of those under age 18 and 9.2% of those age 65 or over.
Roseburg High School Primary and secondary enhance education in Roseburg are provided by the Roseburg School District.
Mercy is the 2nd biggest employer in the town of Roseburg.
The unemployment rate in Roseburg is about 12 percent. During the Great Recession of 2009, the unemployment rate peaked at 16.5% before falling. The biggest employer in the town is Roseburg Forest Products. With 1,139 employees, Mercy Medical Center is the second biggest employer in Roseburg. There are three newspapers serving Roseburg.
The News-Review is presented six days per week and is based in Roseburg.
The Roseburg Beacon is presented weekly and serves Roseburg. The Douglas County News is presented weekly and is based in the close-by town of Sutherlin.
The Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad freight stockyards runs through Roseburg.
Roseburg and encircling communities are served by U-Trans (formerly Umpqua Transit), a small-town bus service. Oregon Route 99 runs through downtown Roseburg as the chief north-south arterial.
Oregon Route 138 runs northwest from Roseburg to Elkton, Oregon, and generally east from Roseburg to its end at a junction with U.S.
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City of Roseburg (official website) Entry for Roseburg in the Oregon Blue Book Municipalities and communities of Douglas County, Oregon, United States
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Roseburg, Oregon - Cities in Oregon - County seats in Oregon - Cities in Douglas County, Oregon - Populated places established in 1851 - Micropolitan areas of Oregon - 1851 establishments in Oregon Territory
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