Harlan, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Eddyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97326. It stands on Spout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harlan quadrangle. It stands 246 feet above sea level.

Harlan within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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.

1939 USGS Marys Peak quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Marys Peak quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Marys Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Corvallis quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Harlan between 1993 and 2018, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
8 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HARLAN BURNT WOODS POWER
13 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Philomath Unit	STOVALL POWER
8 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	HUNTERS CAMP
22 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Toledo Unit	THOMPSON GATE
15 July 2003	Other causes	under an acre	Toledo Unit	CHAPEL VALLEY
17 April 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
31 March 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Toledo Unit	HARLAN GRANGE
14 March 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Toledo Unit	GRANT CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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
Burnt Woods	5.8 miles	13
Glen (historical)	6.8 miles	11
Eddyville	7.9 miles	11
Nortons	8.6 miles	12
Little Elk (historical)	8.8 miles	11
Nashville	9.0 miles	12
Chitwood	10.5 miles	11
Elk City	11.3 miles	11

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 Harlan	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5658272	The 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 1121601. 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.