Bolly, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Marcola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97478. It stands on Whiskey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mohawk quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bolly within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1950 USGS Marcola quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1952 USGS Marcola quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Mc Kenzie River quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Mohawk quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Bolly (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 8 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
Recreation and ceremony	24
Debris and open burning	18
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Other causes	5
Smoking	5
Fireworks	5
Firearms and explosives use	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
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HILL RD #2
6 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ROUND MT. FIRE
6 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	East Lane Unit - ODF	HILL ROAD
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LA LONE
5 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	WENDLING
3 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	NFCA 101
29 September 2012	Other causes	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HONEY BEE LANE FIRE
28 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	18 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BUCK MOUNTAIN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Marcola	1.7 miles	11
Mohawk Post (historical)	2.4 miles	11
Mohawk	2.5 miles	11
Mabel	4.5 miles	11
Wendling	5.1 miles	11
Thurston	8.4 miles	16
Walterville	8.6 miles	13
Cedar Flat	8.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1130604. 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.