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Greenville, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sweet Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97386. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo quadrangle.

Greenville within Linn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Greenville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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 burning51
Equipment and vehicle use47
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony11
Other causes10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFFERNRIDGE # 2
9 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFHWY 228 MP 13.4
9 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFHWY 228 # 6
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCALAPOOIA POWER LINE 1
8 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFLIBERTY
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFCRAWFORDSVILLE DRIVE # 1
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersRIDGEWAY POWER
6 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFMCQUEEN # 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Greenville: 13 past producers, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Morse Brothers Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Morse Brothers Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sweet Home S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sweet Home SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
BrubakerStonePast Producer
CormierStonePast Producer
JohnsonStonePast Producer
Santiam Jct. PitStonePast Producer
Sommers QuattyStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn 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
Holley2.3 miles16
Sweet Home2.4 miles12
Liberty3.3 miles16
Santiam Terrace4.2 miles16
Calapooia4.6 miles12
Crawfordsville4.6 miles16
Foster5.9 miles12
Fairview6.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1136344. 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.