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Dallas, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Dallas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97338. The Survey maps it on the Dallas quadrangle. 16,854 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 325 feet above sea level.

Dallas within Polk County

On record in Dallas

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 4 records

Population over time

3 figures

Dallas grew from 12,459 to 16,854 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
200012,459
201014,583+2,124 (+17%)
202016,854+2,271 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Dallas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning29
Equipment and vehicle use24
Other causes8
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHIDDEN RANCH 2
8 September 2013Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWESTON ROAD
7 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMOUNT PISGAH
7 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreDallas UnitMCBEE RD.
6 September 2002Naturalunder an acreDallas UnitPIONEER ROAD
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use25 acresBaskett Slough National Wildlife RefugeEAST BASKETT SLOUGH
4 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreDallas UnitCOOPER HOLLOW
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreDallas UnitORCHARD KNOB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Dallas: 16 past producers, 11 producers, 4 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Manganese. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dallas ManganeseManganeseOccurrenceHausmannite
Dallas ProspectManganeseOccurrence1941
Kingwell & Mc Manners ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Lime Products CoLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Lime Products Co. QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Oregon Portland Cement CoLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Oregon Portland Cement Co.Limestone, GeneralPast Producer
Rickreall Creek DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dallas in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
January 2007Heavy RainDallas-A total accumulation of 1.91 inches was reported at Rockhouse RAWS.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindDallas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Ellendale2.2 miles13
Fir Villa2.3 miles13
Bowersville (historical)3.1 miles13
Oakdale3.5 miles12
Rickreall4.8 miles16
Cochrane (historical)4.9 miles16
Ferns (historical)5.2 miles15
Bridgeport6.1 miles12

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 DallasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q630985The 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 1162930. 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.