Carnation, Oregon

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 10 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Alvin T. Smith Houselisted 1974 · 0.2 miles away
• Isaac Macrum Houselisted 1998 · 0.3 miles away
• Painter's Woods Historic Districtlisted 2009 · 0.4 miles away
• James D. Robb Houselisted 1988 · 0.6 miles away
• Clark Historic Districtlisted 2002 · 0.7 miles away
• C.W. Mertz Rental House #2listed 2005 · 0.7 miles away
• Benjamin Cornelius Jr. Houselisted 1988 · 0.8 miles away
• First Church of Christ Scientistlisted 1994 · 1.0 miles away
• Forest Grove Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2020 · 1.0 miles away
• Woods and Caples General Storelisted 1985 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1941 USGS Gales Creek quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Forest Grove quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Forest Grove quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
• 1979 USGS Nehalem River quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Carnation between 2000 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Forest Grove
• Dilley
• Patton
• Watts
• Cherry Grove
• Gaston

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Carnation: 13 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Washington County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1162879. 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.