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McKinley, Oregon

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Coquille census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97458. It stands on Cherry Creek. The Survey maps it on the McKinley quadrangle. It stands 138 feet above sea level.

McKinley within Coos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of McKinley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 7 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
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes3
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2001Other causesunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationMIDDLE CREEK
5 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBridge UnitSITKUM LANE
28 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationCEMETERY ROAD
22 September 2001Other causesunder an acreBridge UnitLEE VALLEY
21 September 2009Naturalunder an acreCoos Bay DistrictLONE PINE ROAD
12 September 1997Naturalunder an acreBridge UnitWIMER CREEK ROAD
12 September 1997Naturalunder an acreBridge UnitYANKEE RUN
11 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationLONE PINE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of McKinley: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Art E JonesStonePast Producer
Art E. Jones PitStoneProducer
Hervey QuarryStonePast Producer
Hervey QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coos 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
Lee (historical)2.8 miles19
Fairview3.2 miles19
Dora4.3 miles11
Gravelford6.4 miles19
Coquille8.6 miles19
Sitkum9.2 miles11
Norway9.2 miles19
Sumner9.2 miles21

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 McKinleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6801899The 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 1123991. 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.