Hemlock, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Beaver census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97112. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beaver quadrangle. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Hemlock within Tillamook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1942 USGS Tillamook quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Tillamook quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Yamhill River quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Hemlock between 1992 and 2009, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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 burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Tillamook District	MUNSON CREEK
4 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Tillamook District	E BEAVER CRK #1
28 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Tillamook District	5 POINT
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	SAND LAKE
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Tillamook District	PLEASANT VALLEY
21 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Tillamook District	CAMEL JOE
20 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	TONY CREEK
19 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Tillamook District	CAPE LOOKOUT ROAD #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tillamook County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hemlock: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Kimber	Stone	Past Producer
	Kimber Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Tillamook 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
Beaver	2.7 miles	16
Pleasant Valley	3.8 miles	16
Sandlake	4.7 miles	17
Hebo	6.1 miles	16
Blaine	7.5 miles	15
Tierra Del Mar	8.1 miles	17
Cloverdale	8.1 miles	16
Woods	9.4 miles	16

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 Hemlock	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28035724	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 1143472. 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.