Lafayette, Oregon
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Newberg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97127. It stands on Millican Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dayton quadrangle. 4,423 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 206 feet above sea level.
On record in Lafayette
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 4 records
Evangelical Church of Lafayettelisted 2002
Alfred P. Fletcher Farmhouselisted 1980
James M. and Paul R. Kelty Houselisted 1982
Joseph Mattey Houselisted 1977
Population over time
2 figuresLafayette grew from 3,742 to 4,423 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,742 | |
| 2020 | 4,423 | +681 (+18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1924 USGS Mc Minnville quadrangle1:48000
- 1926 USGS Mc Minnville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1926 USGS McMinnville quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS McMinnville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Yamhill River quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lafayette between 2012 and 2018, burning about 37 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 use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | GUNCLUB RD. FIRE |
| 3 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | WESTSIDE DITCH FIRE |
| 21 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 22 acres | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | POVERTY FIRE |
| 18 July 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 acres | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | GRANDHAVEN FIRE |
| 6 October 2012 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | FRENCH FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Lafayette: 11 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crabtree Traprock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Dayton Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Dayton Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dorsey Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Dorsey Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Penland Bar Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Penland Bar Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lafayette in 1 storm report in 2012: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2012 | Flood | Lafayette | $2,000,000 | Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the South Yamhill River at McMinnville to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The South Yamhill River crested at 54 feet on January 19th at 3 pm PST, 4 feet above flood stage. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Joseph | 1.6 miles | 21 | |
| Dayton | 2.6 miles | 22 | |
| Carlton | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| McMinnville | 5.0 miles | 21 | |
| Dundee | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Eola Village | 6.1 miles | 21 | |
| Sunnycrest | 6.5 miles | 16 | |
| Unionvale | 7.5 miles | 22 |
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 Lafayette | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1012371 | The 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 1157999. 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.









