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Dexter, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lowell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97431. It lies near Parvin Butte. The Survey maps it on the Lowell quadrangle. 893 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Dexter within Lane County

On record in Dexter

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Dexter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning42
Equipment and vehicle use31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural7
Other causes7
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2

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
7 September 2003Naturalunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFEAGLES ROCK
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictANTHONY CREEK
5 September 1992Other causesunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFJACOBY MOUNTAIN
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFALL CREEK DAM
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersENTERPRISE ROAD
4 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution2.4 acresEast Lane Unit - ODFHAROLDS
30 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBOULDER CREEK
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHWY 58 HOUSE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Dexter: 8 past producers, 6 producers, 2 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Arsenic. 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
Snyder Ranch ArsenicArsenicOccurrenceRealgar
Snyder Ranch ArsenicArsenicOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weather's Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weather's Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fall Creek QuarryStonePast Producer
Fall Creek QurryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Little Fall CreekStonePast Producer
Little Fall Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dexter in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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
June 2008HailDexter-The Skywarn Spotter reported large stones, around the size of walnuts, which fell for several minutes with no accumulation.

Every storm recorded in Lane 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
Lowell2.1 miles14
Trent2.7 miles14
Fall Creek3.0 miles14
Unity3.6 miles14
Winberry6.4 miles15
Pleasant Hill6.7 miles14
Jasper7.1 miles14
Cloverdale7.7 miles14

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 DexterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3478009The 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 1119916. 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.