Gap, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Cottage Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97424. It stands on Elkhorn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cottage Grove Lake quadrangle.

Gap within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1954 USGS Anlauf quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Cottage Grove Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Gap between 1992 and 2019, burning about 55 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Debris and open burning	21
Recreation and ceremony	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	9
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Fireworks	3
Other causes	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	DIVIDE
9 September 1995	Other causes	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	BLUE MOUNTAIN ROAD
7 September 1998	Other causes	1.0 acres	East Lane Unit - ODF	HOOTEN
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FIR GROVE DUSTY GRAVE
6 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	East Lane Unit - ODF	BLUE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL
27 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	PLEASANT VIEW
26 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	BLUE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL FIR
26 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Western Lane District	MT. DAVID BARN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Gap: 19 past producers, 13 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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	Recorded
Putnam Deposit	Aluminum, Clay	Prospect
Cottage Grove Native Copper	Copper	Occurrence	Copper, Malachite
Cottage Grove Native Copper	Copper	Prospect
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Putnam	Clay	Occurrence
East Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fawn Peak Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Horn & Wright Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Martin Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Latham	2.8 miles	13
Veatch	2.9 miles	13
Walden	3.9 miles	13
Cottage Grove	4.3 miles	13
Wallace (historical)	6.0 miles	11
Saginaw	6.7 miles	13
London	7.2 miles	11
Dorena (historical)	7.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1121055. 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.