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Jasper, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pleasant Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97455. It stands on Hills Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle. 793 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Jasper within Lane County

On record in Jasper

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Jasper between 1992 and 2020, burning about 290 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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 burning25
Equipment and vehicle use20
Recreation and ceremony17
Smoking9
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks3
Other causes3
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 2002Smokingunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFHILLS CREEK
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.4 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMOUNTAIN GATE
5 September 1992Other causesunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFJACOBY MOUNTAIN
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersENTERPRISE ROAD
3 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresEast Lane Unit - ODFARBORETUM FIRE
29 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFJASPER LOWELL ROAD
25 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFPLACE ROAD
25 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFHILLS MP2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Jasper: 16 past producers, 14 producers. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Gold MineGold, SilverPast Producer
D K MitchellStonePast Producer
D.K. Mitchell PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hills SidingStonePast Producer
Hills SidingStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Olga KordonStonePast Producer
Olga KordonStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jasper in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 flood. 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
April 2019FloodJasper-The Middle Fork of the Willamette River near Jasper crested at 10.5 feet around 4 am on April 12th, which is 0.5 foot above flood stage.

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
Pleasant Hill2.5 miles14
Thurston3.9 miles16
Trent4.4 miles14
Cedar Flat5.2 miles13
Fall Creek5.2 miles14
Goshen5.6 miles14
Cloverdale5.9 miles14
Springfield7.0 miles19

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 JasperAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6163884The 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 1166666. 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.

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.