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Green Acres, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Reedsport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97473. It stands on Wells Creek. The Survey maps it on the Scottsburg quadrangle. It stands 62 feet above sea level.

Green Acres within Douglas 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.

Fires near this place

35 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Green Acres between 2000 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. 9 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
Debris and open burning13
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Firearms and explosives use1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2002Natural32 acresCoos Bay DistrictWEATHERLY
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictMILL CREEK
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLITTLE MILL CREEK
6 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationMURPHYS CAMP
18 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresCoos Bay DistrictJIMMY CREEK
5 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCoos Bay DistrictGOLDEN CR
27 August 2016Naturalunder an acreCoos Bay DistrictMILL CREEK
27 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMILL CREEK #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Green Acres: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Scoggins Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Scoggins Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Acres in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019FloodGreen Acres-Flooding, rockfall, and landslides were reported on numerous roads.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Scottsburg1.9 miles11
Ash8.6 miles11
North Fork10.5 miles14
Elkton12.3 miles10
Kellogg15.2 miles10
East Gardiner15.5 miles15
Reedsport16.1 miles15
Gardiner17.1 miles15

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 Q114183141The 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 1158894. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.