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Ashwood, Oregon

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ashwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97711. It lies near Slaughterhouse Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Ashwood quadrangle. It stands 2,526 feet above sea level.

Ashwood within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ashwood between 1999 and 2020, burning about 543 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictI 749
24 August 2015Natural4.0 acresPrineville District0560
10 August 1999Natural187 acresPrineville UnitLITTLE WHETSTONE
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresPrineville DistrictCOBY
26 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use307 acresCentral Oregon Rangeland Protection AssociationPINE CREEK 0480 RN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Ashwood: 7 occurrences, 5 prospects, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Gold. 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
Axehandle MineMercury, Gold, Arsenic, AntimonyProducer1936, 1937
Oregon King MineSilver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Gold, Antimony, ArsenicPast Producer1898, 1899
Oregon King MineZinc, Lead, Gold, Copper, SilverPlant1898
Red JacketMercury, Antimony, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceCinnabar, Limonite, Marcasite, Pyrite, Stibnite
Red Jacket MineMercury, Silver, Gold, Copper, AntimonyProspect
Roy Mining PropertySilver, GoldOccurrence1900
Roy Mining PropertySilver, GoldOccurrence
Swanson QuarryStonePast Producer
Swanson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gold MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashwood in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Heavy RainAshwood-Heavy rainfall accompanied by small hail and wind gust to 30 mph.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindAshwood-Numerous 8 inch diameter tree branches downed. Wind along with dime size hail damaged grass and alfalfa crop. Rainfall of 1.50 inch in 20 minutes caused extensive runoff which damaged fences and farm road.
May 1998Heavy RainAshwood-1.50 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.
April 2012HailAshwood-no account filed
August 2008HailAshwood-no account filed
July 2002HailAshwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Axehandle (historical)5.6 miles8
Donnybrook (historical)5.7 miles8
Kilts8.4 miles8
Willowdale11.2 miles8
Horseheaven13.2 miles8
Gateway17.6 miles13
Grizzly18.5 miles10
Madras21.0 miles14

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 AshwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474010The 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 1117066. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.