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Curtin, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Elkton-Drain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97424. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Curtin quadrangle. It stands 404 feet above sea level.

Curtin within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Curtin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. 9 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
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning10
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationI-5 MP 162
8 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationBREIER ROAD
20 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationNORTH BEAR CREEK
19 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationLONGVIEW LANE
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationBUCK CREEK
15 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationCURTIN ROAD
15 September 2001Naturalunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationCOX CREEK
14 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationTERRITORIAL RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Curtin: 4 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
Martin Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rattlesnake QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Martin Creek QuarryStonePast Producer
Rattlesnake QuarryStonePast Producer
Rattlesnake QuarryStonePast Producer
Rattlesnake QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Anlauf1.0 miles11
Comstock1.8 miles11
Leona4.5 miles10
Drain7.2 miles10
Calvert (historical)7.5 miles11
Yoncalla9.3 miles10
Sunnydale11.3 miles10
Elkhead12.6 miles11

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 CurtinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5195635The 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 1119642. 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.