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Bacona, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the North Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97133. The Survey maps it on the Bacona quadrangle. It stands 2,034 feet above sea level.

Bacona within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Bacona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreForest Grove DistrictJOHNSON MOTORHOME
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFERN FLAT POWERLINE FIRE
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGREENER ROAD FIRE
25 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSV HWY MP8 VEHICLE FIRE
21 September 1992Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreForest Grove DistrictGREEN MT. POWER
19 September 2020Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersPOWERLINE LIGHTNING N
16 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreColumbia City UnitBACONA ROAD
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFERN FLAT GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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 Bacona: 15 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Ironcrest IronIronOccurrence
Buxton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Columbia West PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crown ZellerbachStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Crown ZellerbachStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Crown ZellerbachStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Crown Zellerbach Mansfield LookoutStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Crown Zellerbach New MansfieldStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Buxton QuarryStonePast Producer
Cloverleaf Mines, LtdStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Dixie (historical)7.0 miles16
Buxton7.1 miles16
Manning8.1 miles16
Davies Junction9.2 miles16
Timber10.0 miles15
Hayward10.5 miles16
Banks11.0 miles18
Westimber (historical)11.1 miles15

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 BaconaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988009The 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 1135823. 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.