BlockLinslaw, Oregon
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Upper Siuslaw River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97490. It stands on Sutherland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenleaf quadrangle. It stands 305 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 13 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.
- 1941 USGS Blachly quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Blachly quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Blachly quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Greenleaf quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
48 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Linslaw between 1992 and 2019, burning about 782 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Western Lane District | MP 28 HWY 126 |
| 4 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Western Lane District | BEACH CREEK |
| 3 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Western Lane District | T-BONE FIRE |
| 28 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 243 acres | Northwest Oregon District | AUSTA |
| 21 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Western Lane District | ROCK CREEK |
| 2 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | LINSLAW |
| 1 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Western Lane District | JUNK YARD |
| 6 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Western Lane District | CHERRY CREEK #2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Linslaw | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6554810 | 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 1145054. 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.