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Blachly, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Middle Siuslaw River-Triangle Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97412. It stands on Pope Creek. The Survey maps it on the Triangle Lake quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Blachly within Lane County

On record in Blachly

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 13 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Blachly between 1992 and 2020, burning about 265 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning26
Recreation and ceremony23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Fireworks5
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Firearms and explosives use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictTRASHBERRY WOOD
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBEAR BED FIRE
6 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictRIDGE LINE FIRE
5 September 2010Firearms and explosives useunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictBIG DIPPER FIRE
30 September 2008Smokingunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictGRANGE ROAD
26 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictVIK
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictLOW DOWN TIMBER
25 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictHORTON VEHICLE FIRE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blachly in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2016Heavy RainBlachly$20,000A land slide consisting of 100 to 300 cubic yards of soil, rock, and large trees closed Highway 36 at mile marker 25 for several days.

Every storm recorded in Lane 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
Horton2.4 miles17
Triangle Lake2.9 miles13
Low Pass4.3 miles17
Estrup (historical)7.0 miles17
Greenleaf9.0 miles13
Alpha9.0 miles14
Noti10.4 miles17
Goldson10.4 miles17

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 BlachlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q10981444The 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 1136070. 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.

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.