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Lowell, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lowell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97452. It stands on Noisy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lowell quadrangle. 1,196 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Lowell within Lane County

On record in Lowell

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lowell grew from 1,045 to 1,196 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,045
20201,196+151 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Lowell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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 burning41
Equipment and vehicle use35
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural7
Other causes7
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLITTLE FALL CREEK STAT
7 September 2003Naturalunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFEAGLES ROCK
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFEAGLES REST
5 September 1992Other causesunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFJACOBY MOUNTAIN
4 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCLAUSE RD STAT
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFALL CREEK DAM
4 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution2.4 acresEast Lane Unit - ODFHAROLDS
4 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFWEIGH STATION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane 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 Lowell: 8 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Arsenic. 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
Fall Creek RanchClayOccurrenceKaolinite
Fall Creek RanchClayPast Producer
Snyder Ranch ArsenicArsenicOccurrenceRealgar
Snyder Ranch ArsenicArsenicOccurrence
Fall Creek QuarryStonePast Producer
Fall Creek QurryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Little Fall CreekStonePast Producer
Little Fall Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Olga KordonStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowell in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 debris flow. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Debris FlowLowell$100,000Oregon Department of Transportation had to close highway 58 due to at least 3 landslides between Lowell and Oakridge. There were other landslides reported around the area as well, along LaDuke Road, Big Fall Creek Road, Winberry Road, and Sweet Creek Road.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dexter2.1 miles14
Unity2.1 miles14
Fall Creek3.4 miles14
Trent4.4 miles14
Winberry4.5 miles15
Jasper8.4 miles14
Pleasant Hill8.5 miles14
Cloverdale9.7 miles14

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 LowellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2714928The 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 1123549. 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.