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Calapooia, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sweet Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97386. It stands on Pugh Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chandler Mountain quadrangle. It stands 637 feet above sea level.

Calapooia within Linn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Calapooia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use27
Debris and open burning24
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism7
Other causes6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks2
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 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFFERNRIDGE # 2
9 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFHWY 228 # 6
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCALAPOOIA POWER LINE 1
6 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFMCQUEEN # 1
5 September 2008Other causesunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFOLD HOLLEY ROAD # 1
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFMCQUEEN
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHWY 228
26 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHOLLEY BRIDGE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Calapooia: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Santiam Jct. PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Santiam Jct. PitStonePast Producer
Morse Brothers Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Morse Brothers Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn 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
Holley2.9 miles16
Greenville4.6 miles16
Sweet Home4.9 miles12
Crawfordsville6.5 miles16
Foster6.8 miles12
Liberty7.8 miles16
Santiam Terrace8.8 miles16
Fairview11.1 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q111836114The 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 1637835. 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.