Evansville, Oregon

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lebanon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97355. It lies near Ridgeway Butte. The Survey maps it on the Lebanon quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Evansville within Linn County

On record in Evansville

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Louis A. Crandall Houselisted 1990 · 0.9 miles away
Hiram Baker Houselisted 1996 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 23 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.

1911 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:31680
1921 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:62500
1922 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:48000
1924 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1940 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1976 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS North Santiam River quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS North Santiam River quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Evansville (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. None 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 burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Other causes	2
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Sweet Home Unit - ODF	OLD SANTIAM
3 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sweet Home Unit - ODF	SODAVILLE
29 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sweet Home Unit - ODF	MIDDLE RIDGE # 2
26 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Sweet Home Unit - ODF	CASCADE DRIVE # 3
22 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sweet Home Unit - ODF	TOWNSEND ROAD
2 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	WATERLOO 371
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sweet Home Unit - ODF	MIDDLE RIDGE #1
12 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HWY 20 POWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Evansville (historical): 18 producers, 17 past producers, 2 occurrences. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Suing	Antimony	Occurrence
Suing Farm	Antimony	Occurrence
C & S	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
C & S Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lebanon Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lebanon Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Truelove Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Trulove Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Linn 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lebanon	0.9 miles	23
South Lebanon	1.2 miles	23
Crowfoot	1.2 miles	23
Whitaker	2.8 miles	20
Sodaville	3.1 miles	16
Waterloo	4.5 miles	16
Fairview	5.4 miles	16
Santiam Terrace	7.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1637795. 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.