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Crow, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Badger Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97487. It stands on Crow Hill. The Survey maps it on the Crow quadrangle.

Crow within Lane County

On record in Crow

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Crow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning39
Equipment and vehicle use31
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking9
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes3
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictERICKSON POWER LINE
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictACADEMY SAW DUST
6 September 2011Smokingunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictHIBLER LANE
30 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictUPPER SWAMP
3 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWestern Lane DistrictPERKINS ROAD FIRE
26 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictHUNGRY PANTHER
23 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHUNTER SQUIRREL
22 September 2016Smokingunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHUSTON ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Crow: 2 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
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hadleyville1.9 miles11
Wolf Creek3.6 miles11
Veneta3.9 miles18
Elmira5.1 miles18
Vaughn5.6 miles17
Fern Ridge Shores6.4 miles18
Noti7.4 miles17
Fox Hollow (historical)7.9 miles13

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 CrowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3478142The 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 1119580. 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.