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Mill City, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1991. It lies in ZIP code area 97360. It stands on Snake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mill City North quadrangle. 1,971 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Mill City within Linn County

On record in Mill City

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mill City grew from 1,855 to 1,971 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,855
20201,971+116 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Mill City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 329 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 9 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
Recreation and ceremony29
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism9
Natural8
Smoking7
Other causes4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictCOX CREEK
8 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresNorthwest Oregon DistrictLITTLE N FORK MP 3
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSantiam UnitLITTLE N. F. #2
6 September 1996Smokingunder an acreSantiam UnitDEWITT LANE #1
4 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSweet Home Unit - ODFREMINE POND #1
30 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use2.2 acresSweet Home Unit - ODFREMINE
3 September 2006Smokingunder an acreSantiam UnitSPA FIRE
3 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSantiam UnitCEDAR MILL ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn 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 Mill City: 8 past producers, 5 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Smith-ButlerIron, Titanium, MetalOccurrence
Mehama Alumina ClayAluminum, ClayOccurrence
North Santiam Bauxite DepositAluminumProspect
GatesStonePast Producer
Gates PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mehama ClayClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mill City in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
July 2012HailMill City-A thunderstorm moving through Linn and Marion Counties produced large hail with a report of E1.75 inch hail three miles east of Santiam Junction, Oregon and a report of M0.75 inch hail one mile east-southeast of Detroit, Oregon.

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Fox Valley3.9 miles13
Lyons7.4 miles13
Anidem (historical)11.2 miles16
Jordan11.9 miles12
Bryant City (historical)12.9 miles17
Kingston15.8 miles16
Lacomb18.3 miles12
Fords Mill18.4 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 Mill CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2684596The 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 1124148. 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.