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Corbett, Oregon

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Corbett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97019. It lies near Cemetery Hill. The Survey maps it on the Washougal quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Corbett within Multnomah County

On record in Corbett

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 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Corbett between 1992 and 2020, burning about 312 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Other causes1

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
29 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2005Smoking10 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaVISTA
22 September 1994Smoking1.0 acresMolalla UnitTUCKER RD
2 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY 2
2 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMolalla UnitI-84 MP 26
2 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMolalla UnitDEVERELL RD FIRE
12 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMolalla UnitPHELPS RD FIRE
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY JUNCTION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Multnomah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Corbett: 10 past producers, 8 producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal. 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
WashingtonGoldUnknown
Camp Collins YmcaGeothermalProducer
CorbettGeothermalProducer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Midvale QuarryStonePast Producer
Midvale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Don ObristSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Multnomah County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corbett in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 2 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2014Heavy RainCorbett-The Oregon Department of Transportation suggested that heavy rain was responsible for a small landslide that occurred near Corbett, Oregon. Official NWS stations reported between 0.5 to 3 inches of rain in Multnomah County in the afternoon and evening. The landslide closed both lanes of the Historic Columbia River Highway just east of the Vista House for a few hours Wednesday evening.
May 2006Heavy RainCorbett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Multnomah 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
Springdale2.2 miles24
Latourell3.8 miles16
Troutdale5.1 miles24
Pleasant Home5.3 miles26
Orient5.5 miles26
Powell Valley6.3 miles25
Bridal Veil6.4 miles16
Wood Village6.8 miles24

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 CorbettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459593The 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 1136174. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.