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Macleay, Oregon

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97317. It stands on Blossom Creek. The Survey maps it on the Salem East quadrangle. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Macleay within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Macleay between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
17 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMolalla UnitGRANGE HALL
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTREE HAVEN COMPLEX
31 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSantiam UnitCASCADE FIRE
30 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSantiam UnitCASCADE HWY FIRE
30 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSantiam UnitWALDO HILLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Macleay: 8 past producers, 7 producers, 4 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay, Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal. 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
Bauxite Waldo HillsAluminum, Iron, Titanium, MetalOccurrenceBauxite, Gibbsite
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Waldo Hills BauxiteAluminum, Titanium, IronOccurrence
Macleay ClayClayOccurrence
Macleay ClayClayOccurrence
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Victor Point QuarryStonePast Producer
Victor Point QuarryStonePast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Macleay in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 tornado. 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
September 1997Tornado (F0)Macleay-Another tornado was reported near Macleay at 1105 am. No damages reported.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Shaw2.5 miles16
Fruitland3.2 miles18
Pratum3.6 miles18
Lachmund (historical)3.8 miles18
Clymer (historical)4.5 miles16
Aumsville4.7 miles16
Willard (historical)5.1 miles16
Four Corners5.3 miles18

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 MacleayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6724653The 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 1123665. 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.