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Fisher, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Waldport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97390. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Five Rivers quadrangle. It stands 236 feet above sea level.

Fisher within Lincoln County

On record in Fisher

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

10 surveys from 13 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fisher between 1992 and 2019, burning about 134 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 ceremony4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
28 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestGREEN RIVER
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestFIVE RIVERS RD.
14 September 1992Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictFIVE RIVER
8 August 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWestern Lane District5 RIVERS #1
20 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestLONG HAIR
3 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictFIVE RIVERS
15 July 2010Smokingunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestINDIDENT 29
6 June 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresSiuslaw National ForestDENZER FIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Denzer (historical)3.2 miles13
Euclid (historical)5.4 miles13
Little Switzerland8.2 miles13
Alsea Rivera8.4 miles13
Little Albany8.6 miles13
Westwood Village8.8 miles13
Tidewater8.8 miles13
Drift Creek11.7 miles13

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 FisherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5454743The 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 1142172. 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.