Damascus, Oregon

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

• Damascus Schoollisted 1980

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.

• 1911 USGS Boring quadrangle1:48000
• 1914 USGS Boring quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1916 USGS Estacada quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1940 USGS Boring quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Sandy quadrangle1:62500
• 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Damascus between 1992 and 2014, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Damascus Heights
• Carver
• Hillsview
• Barton
• Boring
• Cedarhurst Park

Every fire recorded in Clackamas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Damascus: 42 past producers, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Damascus in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Clackamas County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1119675. 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.