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Cherry Grove, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Coast Range census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97119. It stands on Roaring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gaston quadrangle. 503 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Cherry Grove within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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 use15
Debris and open burning14
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined126 acresForest Grove UnitPOWERLINE ROAD MUTUAL AID
4 September 2015Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMARSHALL ROAD TREE FIRE
29 September 2008Other causes2.8 acresForest Grove DistrictTURNER CREEK FIRE
29 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreForest Grove DistrictSOUTH ROAD FIRE
25 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreForest Grove DistrictNELSON COVE
24 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresForest Grove DistrictPLEASANT SMITH BARN FIRE
22 September 2001Recreation and ceremony2.3 acresForest Grove DistrictSECTION 2 FIRE
20 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreForest Grove DistrictNO NAME ROAD SLASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cherry Grove: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Scoggins Dam PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oregon State Highway DivisionStonePast Producer
Oregon State Highway DivisionStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Scoggins DamStonePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStonePast Producer
Vaandering Crushed RockStonePast Producer
Vandering Crushed RockStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Patton5.4 miles16
Gaston5.6 miles16
Dilley7.0 miles17
Watts7.6 miles17
Carnation8.5 miles18
Forest Grove8.6 miles18
Laurelwood8.8 miles17
Gales Creek9.7 miles17

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 Cherry GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3273907The 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 1162897. 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.