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Eagle Creek, Oregon

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Estacada census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97022. It stands on Currin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Estacada quadrangle. It stands 345 feet above sea level.

Eagle Creek within Clackamas County

On record in Eagle Creek

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

13 surveys from 25 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,549 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning66
Recreation and ceremony12
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking7
Fireworks5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1

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
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictLILIAN LN
8 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersEAGLE VIEW
8 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMolalla UnitSHERMAN COOPER
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,508 acresMolalla UnitDOWTY RD
6 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDOWTY RD FIRE
5 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersNURSERY PILE
5 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreMolalla UnitPAUL BUNYON
3 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMolalla UnitTARA LARA LN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clackamas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Eagle Creek: 43 past producers, 9 producers, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Stone, Dimension. 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
Red Rock Pit 7511 TrsStone, DimensionUnknown
E FischerStonePast Producer
Estacada Pit and PlantStonePast Producer
South Eagle PitStonePast Producer
E FischerStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Estacada Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fishcreek Turn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Goodfellow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pit 7524 TrsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rimtie 6805 TrsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle Creek in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 1 heavy rain, 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
April 2022HailEagle Creek$50,000Strong showers developed with small, but accumulating hail. There was a report of a head on collision with one fatality that likely occurred due to the hail storm. Oregon 211 Highway was closed for 3 hours.
December 2007Heavy RainEagle Creek-Storm total precipitation was 3.17 inches.

Every storm recorded in Clackamas 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
Deep Creek (historical)2.8 miles25
Currinsville3.0 miles25
Paradise Park3.2 miles25
Douglass Ridge3.2 miles25
Barton3.4 miles25
Logan3.5 miles25
Cedarhurst Park4.0 miles25
Estacada4.9 miles25

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 Eagle CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1927606The 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 1120258. 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.