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Horton, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Middle Siuslaw River-Triangle Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97412. It stands on Village Creek. The Survey maps it on the Horton quadrangle.

Horton within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Horton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 395 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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 burning27
Recreation and ceremony26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking7
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Firearms and explosives use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictTRASHBERRY WOOD
8 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersPIGEON PASS FIRE
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBEAR BED FIRE
6 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictRIDGE LINE FIRE
5 September 2010Firearms and explosives useunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictBIG DIPPER FIRE
30 September 2008Smokingunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictGRANGE ROAD
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictGRIMES ROAD FIRE
26 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictVIK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horton in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2007Heavy RainHorton-Storm total precipitation was 7.69 inches at the Village Creek RAWS.

Every storm recorded in Lane 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
Blachly2.4 miles13
Low Pass2.5 miles17
Estrup (historical)4.7 miles17
Triangle Lake5.3 miles13
Goldson8.6 miles17
Franklin10.6 miles17
Noti10.7 miles17
Cheshire11.1 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 HortonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5906797The 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 1136398. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.