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Navy Heights, Oregon

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Astoria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97103. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Astoria quadrangle. It stands 358 feet above sea level.

Navy Heights within Clatsop County

On record in Navy Heights

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Navy Heights between 1992 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony23
Debris and open burning17
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Other causes2

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 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictJACK CREEK
6 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMITSCHER RD.
5 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCUTTER
30 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAstoria DistrictFLORENCE #033
3 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersKLASKANIE TRAIL
24 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAstoria DistrictFLORENCE ST.
22 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAstoria DistrictWILLIAMSPORT 2
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAstoria District39TH AND IRVING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clatsop County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Navy Heights: 10 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Dimension, Flagstone. 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
Sunset Quarry & MillStone, DimensionUnknown
Unnamed PitFlagstoneProducer
Astoria LandfillStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStoneProducer
Astor House, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Astor House,IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Astoria LandfilleSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Barbey Packing Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clatsop 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
Tongue Point Village0.6 miles15
Astoria2.8 miles15
Fern Hill2.8 miles17
Uniontown4.0 miles15
Miles Crossing4.1 miles15
Jeffers Garden5.0 miles15
Burnside (historical)5.5 miles17
Olney6.3 miles15

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 Navy HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6982636The 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 1136563. 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.