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Amity, Oregon

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Dayton-Amity census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97101. It stands on Ash Swale. The Survey maps it on the Amity quadrangle. 1,757 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Amity within Yamhill County

On record in Amity

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Amity grew from 1,614 to 1,757 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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
20101,614
20201,757+143 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Amity between 2003 and 2018, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1

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
28 September 2003Fireworks4.0 acresForest Grove DistrictERRATIC ROCK FIRE
18 August 2013Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHWY 30 MP58#1
4 October 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMP39/OLDSVILLE RD BURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yamhill County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Amity: 13 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Ceramco Clay MineClayPast Producer
Ceramco Clay MineClayProducer
A. Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Anderson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bowyer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mcdowell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yamhill 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
Whiteson2.5 miles21
Eola Crest3.7 miles21
Eola Village4.3 miles21
Bellevue5.8 miles17
Hopewell6.2 miles22
McMinnville6.5 miles21
Unionvale8.0 miles22
Wheatland8.5 miles22

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 AmityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2368711The 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 1162813. 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.