Bethel, Oregon

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97371. It lies near Plum Valley. The Survey maps it on the Amity quadrangle.

Bethel within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bethel between 2013 and 2016, burning under an acre 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
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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
18 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HWY 30 MP58#1
6 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MUDDY VALLEY BRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Bethel: 5 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Finley Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Freeman & Sons Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Finley Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Freeman & Sons Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Noble Mountain Tree Farm Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Noble Mountain Tree Farm Quarry	Stone	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
McCoy	1.7 miles	21
Bethel Heights	1.8 miles	21
Zena	3.7 miles	21
Perrydale	3.8 miles	17
Broadmead	5.0 miles	17
Lincoln	5.5 miles	22
Tucker (historical)	6.0 miles	17
Salemtowne	7.3 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1136060. 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.