Canary, Oregon

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Dunes City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97493. It stands on Grant Creek. The Survey maps it on the Florence quadrangle.

Canary within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1920 USGS Siltcoos Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1941 USGS Siltcoos Lake quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Siltcoos Lake quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Siltcoos Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Coos Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Reedsport quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Canary between 1992 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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	35
Recreation and ceremony	22
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Fireworks	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Other causes	3
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	JOAQUIN MILLER
8 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	908 QUINCE STREET FIRE
6 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Western Lane District	S.CANARY FIRE
3 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Western Lane District	MUSHROOM FIRE
25 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Western Lane District	NACO FIRE
23 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Western Lane District	LONG TIME BURN
21 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	MAPLE CREEK
2 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MUNSEL CREEK

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
Siltcoos	3.1 miles	15
Acme	3.8 miles	15
Cushman	4.0 miles	15
Glenada	4.3 miles	15
North Beach	4.6 miles	15
Florence	5.1 miles	15
Dunes City	5.2 miles	15
Westlake	5.2 miles	15

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 Canary	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q121461362	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 1139299. 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.