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Hobsonville, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bay City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97107. It stands on Electric Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garibaldi quadrangle. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

Hobsonville within Tillamook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Hobsonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 350 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony40
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersA STREET
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined301 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersPIKE ROAD
6 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictSNAG FIRE
5 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictMINNEHAHA
4 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreTillamook DistrictELECTRIC CR
3 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictELECTRIC CREEK
29 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTillamook DistrictOLD DUMP
21 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTillamook DistrictILLIE DILLY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tillamook 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 Hobsonville: 19 past producers, 15 producers, 2 occurrences. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Chromium. 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
NetartsIron, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, ChromiumOccurrence
Netarts BayTitanium, Zirconium, Iron, ChromiumOccurrence
4-M Wood ProductsStonePast Producer
4-M Wood Products PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
BennyStonePast Producer
Benny PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Christensen QuarryStonePast Producer
Christensen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
MiamiStonePast Producer
Miami PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Garibaldi0.9 miles17
Bay City1.9 miles17
Barview2.6 miles17
Bayocean (historical)3.0 miles17
Idaville3.3 miles16
Barnegat (historical)3.8 miles17
Twin Rocks4.1 miles17
Saltair (historical)4.5 miles17

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 HobsonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18349705The 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 1121860. 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.