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Detroit, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the East Marion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97342. It stands on French Creek. The Survey maps it on the Detroit quadrangle. 203 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,594 feet above sea level.

Detroit within Marion County

Population over time

2 figures

Detroit grew from 202 to 203 between 2010 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
2010202
2020203+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Detroit between 1992 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 16 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 ceremony63
Natural28
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning15
Smoking10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2017Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHALLS END FIRE
9 September 2017Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestINCIDENT 275
9 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWillamette National ForestINCENSE
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDRY CREEK
8 September 2017Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestINCIDENT 267
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWillamette National Forest421 SRZ
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestTUMBLE LAKE
7 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWillamette National ForestBLOWOUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Detroit: 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, 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
Detroit/Hawk Mountain PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Detroit/Hawk Mountain QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Greenhorn ProspectGoldOccurrence1902
Greenhorn ProspectGoldProspect
Mineral CutGoldOccurrence
Mineral Cut ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Detroit in 1 storm report in 2007: 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
December 2007Heavy RainDetroit-Storm total precipitation was 6.39 inches at the Detroit Lake Agricultural Station.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Idanha4.3 miles16
Jawbone Flats (historical)8.4 miles18
Breitenbush Hot Springs9.7 miles17
Breitenbush10.0 miles17
Niagara10.0 miles17
Elkhorn13.3 miles17
Gates14.2 miles17
Elkhorn Woods14.4 miles17

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 DetroitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2187605The 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 1140929. 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.