Alma, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Upper Siuslaw River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97487. It stands on Conger Creek. The Survey maps it on the High Point quadrangle. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Alma within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1942 USGS Crow quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1945 USGS Crow quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS High Point quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Alma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 12 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
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	3
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.6 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	TIMBER RIDGE
23 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	DOGWOOD
18 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HOLLAND LIGHTNING
12 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Roseburg District	MIDDLE CREEK
7 August 2006	Natural	1.2 acres	Western Lane District	BUCK CREEK
7 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Western Lane District	8K FIRE
6 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Western Lane District	DOE PARTY
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Western Lane District	HAIGHT CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Alma: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Wolf Creek	Stone	Past Producer
Cleghorn	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wolf Creek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Lane 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mound (historical)	1.3 miles	11
Wolf Creek	6.5 miles	11
Vaughn	9.4 miles	17
Hadleyville	9.9 miles	11
Crow	10.0 miles	11
Walton	11.3 miles	13
Noti	11.7 miles	17
Veneta	12.7 miles	18

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 Alma	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4733503	The 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 1116888. 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.