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.
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
Ernest Bridgelisted 1979
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Marcola quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Marcola quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Mc Kenzie River quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Marcola quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
81 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | HILL RD #2 |
| 6 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | ROUND MT. FIRE |
| 6 September 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | East Lane Unit - ODF | HILL ROAD |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | LA LONE |
| 5 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | WENDLING |
| 29 September 2012 | Other causes | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | HONEY BEE LANE FIRE |
| 26 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Oregon District | MCGOWAN |
| 20 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | East Lane Unit - ODF | UPPER CAMP CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2012Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2012 | Flood | Marcola | $1,000,000 | Heavy 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bolly (historical) | 1.7 miles | 11 | |
| Mabel | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Mohawk Post (historical) | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Wendling | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Mohawk | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Walterville | 7.8 miles | 13 | |
| Cedar Flat | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Deerhorn | 8.6 miles | 12 |
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 Marcola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3474048 | 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 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.








