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Marcola, 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 Cartwright Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marcola quadrangle. 580 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Marcola within Lane County

On record in Marcola

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 1 record

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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Marcola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 9 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 burning20
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Other causes5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks3
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
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHILL RD #2
6 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersROUND MT. FIRE
6 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresEast Lane Unit - ODFHILL ROAD
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLA LONE
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
26 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictMCGOWAN
20 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEast Lane Unit - ODFUPPER CAMP CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marcola in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 flood. 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
January 2012FloodMarcola$1,000,000Heavy rain caused the Mohawk River near Springfield to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Mohawk River crested at 17.9 feet on January 19th at 7 pm PST, 2.9 feet above flood stage.

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
Bolly (historical)1.7 miles11
Mabel3.4 miles11
Mohawk Post (historical)3.5 miles11
Wendling3.5 miles11
Mohawk3.6 miles11
Walterville7.8 miles13
Cedar Flat8.3 miles13
Deerhorn8.6 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 MarcolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474048The 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 1136515. 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.

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.