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Allegany, Oregon

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Eastside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97420. It stands on East Fork Millicoma River. The Survey maps it on the Allegany quadrangle. It stands 43 feet above sea level.

Allegany within Coos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Allegany between 1993 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2012Smoking1.2 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersNESIKA PARK
2 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationKENTUCK CREEK
17 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationWEST FORK MILLICOMA
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHWY 241 MM 7
10 September 1997Naturalunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationHENDRICKSON CREEK
10 September 1997Naturalunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationMILLICOMA RIVER
9 August 2000Naturalunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationPACKARD CREEK
31 August 2010Other causesunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationWEST FORK MILLICOMA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Allegany: 9 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Koostone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mahaffy QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Johnson Rock Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
KenrockSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
KenstoneSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
KenrockStoneProducer
KenstoneStoneProducer
KentuckStonePast Producer
KentuckStoneProducer
Kentuck SloughStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Coos 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
Dellwood4.0 miles20
Coos River4.9 miles20
Cooston8.4 miles20
Templeton9.0 miles15
Glasgow9.5 miles20
Eastside9.5 miles21
Shorewood10.0 miles20
North Bend10.3 miles20

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 AlleganyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3478125The 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 1116873. 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.