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Barlow, Oregon

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wilsonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97013. It stands on Gribble Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canby quadrangle. 133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 101 feet above sea level.

Barlow within Clackamas County

On record in Barlow

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Barlow fell from 140 to 133 between 2000 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
2000140
2010135-5 (-4%)
2020133-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Barlow in 2017, burning under an acre in total. None 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 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 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFERNWOOD GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clackamas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Barlow: 28 past producers, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. 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
J P VlahosStonePast Producer
Carl Hansen PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayPast Producer
J P VlahosStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Oregon State Hwy Div 1Sand and Gravel, Construction, ClayPast Producer
Paraguay PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Albert TroutmanSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Albert Troutman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Carl HansenSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
City of WilsonvilleSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
City of WilsonvilleSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barlow in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 2 flood. 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
January 2012FloodBarlow$1,000,000Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Molalla River near Canby to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Molalla River crested at 23 feet on January 19th at 8 pm PST.
February 2025FloodBarlow-Pudding River at Aurora. Reached minor flood (22 ft) 2/25 2300 PST. Peaked at 23.04 ft 2/26 at 1500. Fell below flood 2/28 midnight.

Every storm recorded in Clackamas 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
Canby1.7 miles21
Lone Elder2.6 miles15
Charbonneau3.2 miles22
O'Neil Corners3.4 miles21
Macksburg4.1 miles15
Wilsonville4.3 miles22
New Era4.7 miles21
Needy5.5 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 BarlowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3235511The 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 1166611. 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.