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.
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.
William Barlow Houselisted 1977 · 0.2 miles away
Population over time
3 figuresBarlow 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 140 | |
| 2010 | 135 | -5 (-4%) |
| 2020 | 133 | -2 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1914 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1939 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Canby quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Canby quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:62500
- 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Canby quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional 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 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 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | FERNWOOD GRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 37 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J P Vlahos | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Carl Hansen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay | Past Producer | ||
| J P Vlahos | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Oregon State Hwy Div 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Paraguay Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Albert Troutman | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Albert Troutman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Carl Hansen | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| City of Wilsonville | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| City of Wilsonville | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2012 | Flood | Barlow | $1,000,000 | Heavy 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 2025 | Flood | Barlow | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canby | 1.7 miles | 21 | |
| Lone Elder | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Charbonneau | 3.2 miles | 22 | |
| O'Neil Corners | 3.4 miles | 21 | |
| Macksburg | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Wilsonville | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| New Era | 4.7 miles | 21 | |
| Needy | 5.5 miles | 15 |
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 Barlow | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3235511 | 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 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.











