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New Era, Oregon

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Northwest Clackamas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97045. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canby quadrangle. It stands 187 feet above sea level.

New Era within Clackamas County

On record in New Era

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

12 surveys from 21 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

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of New Era in 2010, 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMolalla UnitKIRK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clackamas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of New Era: 31 past producers, 11 producers, 1 occurrence. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Carl Hansen PitSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayPast Producer
Petes MtnIronPast Producer
Petes MtnIronPast Producer
Terrill Silica DepositSilicaOccurrence
Terrill Silica DepositSilicaPast Producer
Forman Quarry No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
J P VlahosStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Paraguay PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pynns Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Forman Quarry #2StonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Era in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 lightning. 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
May 2022LightningNew Era$1,200Clackamas County Sheriff reported a call of lighting destroying a large tree near Canby, Oregon. Location of event is a guess.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Central Point1.6 miles21
O'Neil Corners2.1 miles21
Stringtown (historical)2.8 miles21
Willamette3.0 miles21
Canby3.2 miles21
Canemah3.7 miles19
Mount Pleasant3.8 miles19
Sunset4.4 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 New EraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7007480The 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 1136571. 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.