Low Pass, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Junction City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97419. It stands on Michaels Creek. The Survey maps it on the Horton quadrangle. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Low Pass within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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.

1909 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:62500
1922 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1942 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:62500, 3 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 Horton quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Low Pass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 407 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 7 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 burning	37
Recreation and ceremony	23
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Firearms and explosives use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	2
Other causes	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
9 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Western Lane District	TRASHBERRY WOOD
8 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	PIGEON PASS FIRE
7 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BEAR BED FIRE
7 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Western Lane District	J C FIRE
5 September 2010	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Western Lane District	BIG DIPPER FIRE
4 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HWY 36 SQUIRREL
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Western Lane District	SWAMP CREEK FIRE
30 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Western Lane District	GRANGE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Horton	2.5 miles	17
Estrup (historical)	3.2 miles	17
Blachly	4.3 miles	13
Goldson	6.2 miles	17
Triangle Lake	6.7 miles	13
Franklin	8.1 miles	17
Cheshire	8.9 miles	17
Noti	9.0 miles	17

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 Low Pass	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11034239	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 1136499. 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.