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Kingston, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mill City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97383. The Survey maps it on the Stayton quadrangle. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Kingston within Linn 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Kingston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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 2017Equipment and vehicle use7.2 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFIR GROVE FRIE
8 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreSantiam UnitBOOS POND
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFIR GROVE
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSantiam UnitOLD MEHEMA
3 September 2020Debris and open burning3.2 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFERN RIDGE
3 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSantiam UnitMEHAMA FIR
25 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSantiam UnitSPENNER RD
23 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSPENNER ROAD PILES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Kingston: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 4 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Platinum. 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
Iron OccurrenceIron, ManganeseOccurrence
Sublimity Weathered GravelClayOccurrence
Hink FarmPlatinumOccurrence
Hink FarmPlatinumOccurrence
Stayton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hagel RockStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn 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
Jordan5.6 miles12
Shelburn6.1 miles20
Scio6.7 miles20
West Scio7.6 miles20
Lyons8.5 miles13
Dotyville (historical)9.1 miles20
Fox Valley11.9 miles13
Crabtree12.2 miles20

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 KingstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6413431The 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 1122772. 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.