BlockAlpha, Oregon
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Middle Siuslaw River-Triangle Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97430. It stands on Alpha Creek. The Survey maps it on the Windy Peak quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS Blachly quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Blachly quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Blachly quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Windy Peak quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
15 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Alpha between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Western Lane District | HWY. 36 #1 |
| 29 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | NELSON MOUNTAIN TREE |
| 29 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Western Lane District | DEADWOOD CREEK 0829 |
| 23 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | DEADWOOD DEBRIS |
| 11 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | PHILLIPS CREEK |
| 1 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Western Lane District | NELSON MOUNTAIN TRUCK FI |
| 31 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | DEADWOOD POLE #2 |
| 19 July 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Western Lane District | HULA CREEK FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Alpha | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q19872100 | 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 1137162. 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.