Needy, Oregon

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Yoder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97013. It stands on Wheeler Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yoder quadrangle. It stands 174 feet above sea level.

Needy within Clackamas County

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.

1939 USGS Molalla quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1940 USGS Molalla quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Yoder quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Needy between 2004 and 2019, burning under an acre in total. None 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 burning	2
Equipment and vehicle 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
9 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Molalla Unit	TOLIVER ROAD
28 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ROSEWOOD PILE
31 July 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Molalla Unit	RANGE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clackamas 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 Needy: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
J & W Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
J&W Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Oregon State Highway Division 8	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Oregon State Highway Division 8	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Quarry 7	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hamricks Corner	1.8 miles	15
Yoder	2.6 miles	15
Rural Dell	3.2 miles	15
Macksburg	3.6 miles	15
Elliott Prairie	3.8 miles	16
Oaklawn	3.9 miles	15
Lone Elder	4.1 miles	15
Barlow	5.5 miles	21

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 Needy	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6986686	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 1124627. 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.