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Foley Springs, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the McKenzie River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97413. It stands on Avenue Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belknap Springs quadrangle.

Foley Springs within Lane County

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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Foley Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,628 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 3 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
Natural31
Recreation and ceremony16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2

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 1994Smokingunder an acreWillamette National Forestnot named
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestMR - 453
5 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFHORSE CREEK
9 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWillamette National ForestRANGER STATION
8 August 2004Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestSCOTCH BROOM
7 August 2006Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestFRISSEL POINT
7 August 2003Naturalunder an acreWillamette National Forest169
6 August 1999Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestFLORENCE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Foley Springs: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
Belknap Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Foley SpringsGeothermalOccurrence

Every working 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
Belknap Springs3.6 miles16
McKenzie Bridge3.8 miles16
Rainbow7.4 miles16
Blue River12.9 miles15
Finn Rock15.2 miles15
Nimrod17.4 miles15
Vida25.0 miles13
Leaburg30.8 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122542527The 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 1158240. 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.