Black Butte, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Cottage Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97424. It stands on Garoutte Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harness Mountain quadrangle.

Black Butte within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1954 USGS Anlauf quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Harness Mtn quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Black Butte between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	5
Other causes	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	HARNESS MOUNTAIN
8 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	PROGENY
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	1350 SPUR
3 September 2002	Other causes	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	LONDON
29 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	BIG RIVER
16 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	BLACK BUTTE
9 August 1994	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	HOBART CREEK
7 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LONDON HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Black Butte: 6 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay, Arsenic, Antimony. 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	Recorded
Big Baldy Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Big Baldy Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hobart Butte	Clay, Arsenic, Antimony	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hobart Butte	Titanium, Silica, Mercury, Iron, Arsenic, Aluminum, Water, Free, Clay	Past Producer	1930, 1934
Sullivan Prospect	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Bald Butte	Mercury	Occurrence
Bald Butte Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Black Butte Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1890, 1900, 1968
Elkhead Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1870, 1882, 1971
Elkhead Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1870, 1887

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Amos (historical)	2.7 miles	11
London Springs	4.4 miles	11
London	4.6 miles	11
Wallace (historical)	5.8 miles	11
Gap	11.5 miles	11
Veatch	13.0 miles	13
Latham	14.2 miles	13
Walden	14.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1157800. 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.