Burnt Woods, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Eddyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97326. It stands on Shotpouch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marys Peak quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Burnt Woods within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1939 USGS Marys Peak quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Marys Peak quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Marys Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Corvallis quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Marys Peak quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Burnt Woods between 1993 and 2018, burning about 109 acres 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	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HARLAN BURNT WOODS POWER
22 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Toledo Unit	CLINE HILL
14 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Philomath Unit	SHROYER RIDGE
13 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Philomath Unit	STOVALL POWER
9 August 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Philomath Unit	DEVITT POWER
9 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Philomath Unit	SHROYER RIDGE
9 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Toledo Unit	ELLMARK 98
3 August 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Philomath Unit	BLODGETT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Nashville	3.5 miles	12
Harlan	5.8 miles	12
Nortons	5.9 miles	12
Eddyville	8.4 miles	11
Little Elk (historical)	9.1 miles	11
Chitwood	11.2 miles	11
Glen (historical)	12.0 miles	11
Pioneer City (historical)	13.0 miles	11

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 Burnt Woods	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5000238	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 1139014. 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.