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Hopville, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Monmouth-Independence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97351. It lies near American Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Monmouth quadrangle.

Hopville within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Hopville between 1992 and 2017, burning about 195 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2

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
18 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWilliam L. Finley National Wildlife RefugeFIELD 9
1 August 1993Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresNorthwest Oregon DistrictWELLS ISLE
9 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBARRETT CREEK
9 July 2000Smokingunder an acreWilliam L. Finley National Wildlife RefugeWINTEL RD
28 July 1998Equipment and vehicle use175 acresAnkeny National Wildlife RefugeGOOSE1988
25 July 1994Equipment and vehicle use12 acresAnkeny National Wildlife RefugeMOHOFF
30 May 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAnkeny National Wildlife RefugeANKENYFIRE
3 February 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAnkeny National Wildlife RefugeATV FLD 21

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Hopville: 17 past producers, 13 producers, 2 occurrences. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Buena Vista ClayClayOccurrence
Buena Vista ClayClayOccurrence
Krauger PitStonePast Producer
Krauger PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wigrich-Pomeroy BarStonePast Producer
Wigrich-Pomeroy BarStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Modeville0.8 miles16
Buena Vista2.5 miles16
Stapleton4.2 miles16
Parker4.4 miles16
Independence4.4 miles16
Suver5.7 miles18
Monmouth6.2 miles16
Cochrane (historical)7.9 miles16

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 Q122546558The 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 1121980. 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.