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Fort Hill Census Designated Place, Oregon

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Willamina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97396. It lies near Fort Hill. The Survey maps it on the Grand Ronde quadrangle. 154 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Fort Hill Census Designated Place within Polk County

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Hill Census Designated Place grew from 129 to 154 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010129
2020154+25 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Fort Hill Census Designated Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreDallas UnitMYSTERY FIRE
4 September 2009Smokingunder an acreDallas UnitFIRE HALL
27 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGOOSENECK RD.
23 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreDallas UnitFIRE HALL ROAD
20 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresDallas UnitSTONE ROAD
20 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDallas UnitFORT HILL
2 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDallas UnitWALLACE BRIDGE
14 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreDallas UnitOAK LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Fort Hill Census Designated Place: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Aluminum. 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
Collins RanchAluminumOccurrenceBauxite
Collins RanchAluminum, ClayOccurrence
Grande Ronde Clay DepositClayPast Producer
Grande Ronde Clay DepositClayProducer
Gold Creek Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
South PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gold Creek Pit and PlantStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Valley Junction0.9 miles15
Grand Ronde2.9 miles15
Buell7.9 miles17
Ballston12.4 miles17
Black Rock13.5 miles12
Ellendale13.9 miles13
Tucker (historical)13.9 miles17
Oakdale14.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Fort Hill Census Designated PlaceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5864138The 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 1142319. 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.