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Mabel, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Marcola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97454. It stands on Shotgun Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marcola quadrangle. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Mabel within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Mabel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning20
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks2
Smoking1
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
5 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWENDLING
29 September 2012Other causesunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHONEY BEE LANE FIRE
23 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictCITY VIEW
20 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFERNEST BRIDGE
19 September 2020Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDRURY BUTTE
18 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictDRURYCREEK
15 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFOLD MARCOLA ROAD
11 September 2005Naturalunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictBUNKER HIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mabel: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
MabelClayOccurrence
Mabel Area ClayClayOccurrenceKaolinite
Mabel DepositClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mabel in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 hail. 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
June 2009HailMabel-Large hail was accompanied by heavy rain as the storm passed.

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
Wendling2.3 miles11
Marcola3.4 miles11
Bolly (historical)4.5 miles11
Mohawk Post (historical)6.8 miles11
Mohawk6.9 miles11
Deerhorn10.1 miles12
Walterville10.1 miles13
Leaburg10.9 miles12

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 MabelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q10977596The 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 1123653. 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.