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Crown Point, Oregon

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Coos Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97420. It stands on Storey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Charleston quadrangle. It stands 148 feet above sea level.

Crown Point within Coos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Crown Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 7 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 ceremony39
Smoking30
Debris and open burning30
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Fireworks11
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationNORTH SPIT
8 September 2020Smokingunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLIBBY LANE
8 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGRINNELL LANE
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSECOND CREEK
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersIDA LANE
5 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationSHINGLEHOUSE SLOUGH
3 September 1998Smokingunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationAGATE SPRINGS
3 September 1993Smokingunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationSUNSET BAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Crown Point: 27 occurrences, 13 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Platinum. 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
Mathews M JPlatinum, GoldOccurrence
Parker Magnet ProcessChromium, IronOccurrence
Parker Magnetic ProcessChromium, IronUnknown
SengstackenGold, PlatinumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Chickamin MineGold, Platinum, ChromiumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Chickamin MineGold, Platinum, ChromiumPast Producer
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Unnamed PitClayProducer
CharlestonSilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East Bluff-Head of Brown SloughGold, PlatinumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coos 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
Charleston1.4 miles21
Barview1.7 miles21
Libby4.0 miles21
Empire4.6 miles22
Englewood4.7 miles21
Coos Bay5.4 miles21
Coos City (historical)5.5 miles21
Bunker Hill5.8 miles21

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.

Wikidata item Q114854707The 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 1119593. 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.