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Leneve, Oregon

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Coquille census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97423. It stands on Beaver Slough. The Survey maps it on the Riverton quadrangle. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Leneve within Coos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Leneve between 1992 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning30
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking18
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationSEVENMILE CREEK
7 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersRODDERICK RD # 2
6 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersRODDERICK RD
6 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationBEAVER SLOUGH
5 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersNORTH BANK RD
30 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationBEAVER CREEK
3 September 1998Smokingunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationAGATE SPRINGS
28 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCOUNTY DUMP ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Leneve: 18 occurrences, 17 past producers, 4 producers, 3 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Eagle MineGold, Iridium, Osmium, Platinum, ChromiumProducer1865
Eagle MineGold, Osmium, Platinum, Zirconium, IridiumPast Producer
Eagle Mine CoquilleGold, ChromiumPast ProducerPlacer
Lane Extension MineGold, PGEOccurrence
Pioneer MineGold, Platinum, Iridium, Ruthenium, Rhodium, ChromiumPast Producer1866
Pioneer MineGold, PGE, IronPast Producer
Rose MineGold, Platinum, ChromiumOccurrenceChromite, Gold
AllenManganeseOccurrence
AllensManganeseOccurrence
Fletcher Myers PropertyGold, PlatinumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coos 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
Coaledo2.8 miles19
Riverton3.4 miles21
Cedar Point3.7 miles19
Kings Landing (historical)4.5 miles21
Delmar4.5 miles21
Coquille5.0 miles19
Green Acres5.1 miles21
Randolph5.1 miles21

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 LeneveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6522413The 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 1136472. 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.