Noon, Oregon

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Southwest Benton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97370. It stands on Woods Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wren quadrangle. It stands 292 feet above sea level.

Noon within Benton 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.

1921 USGS Corvallis quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1942 USGS Corvallis quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Corvallis quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Corvallis quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Wren quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Noon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 5 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	31
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	5
Smoking	5
Fireworks	4
Other causes	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GARRETT LANE FIRE
8 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	BLAKESLEY CREEK
6 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DECKER RIDGE STRIKE
27 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	IRIS
25 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	WREN BARREL
25 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	OAK CREEK
23 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	DECKER ROAD
22 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Philomath Unit	MOUSE HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Noon: 16 past producers, 8 producers, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Platinum, Gold, Silver. 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
Transtion Metals Corp	Platinum, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Griffin Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Neuman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Point West Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Reed Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Von Sild Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wren Pit No. 1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wren Pit No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gellatly,Andrew L	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gellatly,Andrew L	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Flynn	0.7 miles	19
Philomath	1.7 miles	23
Wren	3.3 miles	19
Harris	4.0 miles	19
Alder	6.4 miles	13
Dry Creek	7.1 miles	23
Corvallis	7.3 miles	23
Blodgett	7.4 miles	13

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.

Wikidata item Q7049733

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 1146871. 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.