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North Plains, Oregon

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the North Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97133. It stands on Ghost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle. 3,441 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 176 feet above sea level.

North Plains within Washington County

Population over time

3 figures

North Plains grew from 1,605 to 3,441 between 2000 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
20001,605
20101,947+342 (+21%)
20203,441+1,494 (+77%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of North Plains between 1992 and 2016, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 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 burning12
Other causes3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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 1992Other causes2.0 acresForest Grove DistrictMASON HILL #2
29 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.7 acresForest Grove DistrictBRUNSWICK CANYON FIRE
29 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreForest Grove DistrictKAY ROAD
27 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreForest Grove DistrictDC GRASS BURN FIRE
26 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreForest Grove DistrictDAIRY CREEK POND FIRE
2 September 1992Other causes2.0 acresForest Grove DistrictMASON HILL #1
17 September 1992Other causes1.5 acresForest Grove DistrictCOREY GRASS
4 August 2014Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersKAY RD LIGHTNING STRIKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of North Plains: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal. 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
Bauxite Tualatin MountainsAluminum, Iron, Titanium, MetalOccurrence
Tualatin Mountains BauxiteAluminum, Titanium, IronProspect
SchmidtClayPast Producer
SchmidtClayUnknown
Jackson Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Peterson Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Beet Bend QuarryStonePast Producer
Beet Bend QuarryStonePast Producer
Jackson Creek QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Plains in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 funnel cloud. 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 2016Funnel CloudNorth Plains-A funnel cloud was reported by the public near North Plains, OR.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Glencoe0.2 miles24
Mountaindale3.1 miles18
Helvetia4.0 miles24
Centerville (historical)4.9 miles18
Hillsboro5.1 miles24
Wilkesboro5.5 miles18
West Union5.7 miles24
Verboort5.9 miles18

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 North PlainsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2478118The 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 1163180. 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.