Chemawa, Oregon

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97305. The Survey maps it on the Gervais quadrangle.

Chemawa within Marion County

On record in Chemawa

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 1 record

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

Chemawa Indian School Sitelisted 1992 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1923 USGS Mount Angel quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1940 USGS Mount Angel quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Gervais quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Chemawa between 1992 and 2017, burning under an acre in total. 2 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
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle 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
26 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SPENCER BUTTE
20 July 1992	Natural	under an acre	Grand Ronde Tribes	W FRK SNAG
20 July 1992	Natural	under an acre	Grand Ronde Tribes	E FRK SNAG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Chemawa: 23 past producers, 18 producers. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Lake Marcyl	Stone	Past Producer
Lake Marcyl Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Producer
Austin Borrow	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Austin Bottow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Barnick Borrow	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Barnick Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Chapin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Chapin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Hayesville	1.2 miles	18
Labish Village	1.6 miles	15
Keizer	1.9 miles	20
Oak Park	2.6 miles	18
Middle Grove	2.6 miles	18
Clear Lake	2.8 miles	22
Hazel Green	3.6 miles	15
Lakebrook	3.6 miles	22

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 Chemawa	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5090322	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 1136143. 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.