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.
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
Briedwell Schoollisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresAmity 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,614 | |
| 2020 | 1,757 | +143 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 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.
- 1924 USGS Mc Minnville quadrangle1:48000
- 1926 USGS Mc Minnville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1926 USGS McMinnville quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS McMinnville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Amity quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Yamhill River quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2003Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 2003 | Fireworks | 4.0 acres | Forest Grove District | ERRATIC ROCK FIRE |
| 18 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | HWY 30 MP58#1 |
| 4 October 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | MP39/OLDSVILLE RD BURN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 20 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceramco Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Ceramco Clay Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| A. Anderson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Anderson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Bowyer Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Mcdowell Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteson | 2.5 miles | 21 | |
| Eola Crest | 3.7 miles | 21 | |
| Eola Village | 4.3 miles | 21 | |
| Bellevue | 5.8 miles | 17 | |
| Hopewell | 6.2 miles | 22 | |
| McMinnville | 6.5 miles | 21 | |
| Unionvale | 8.0 miles | 22 | |
| Wheatland | 8.5 miles | 22 |
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 Amity | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2368711 | 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 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.









