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Orient, Oregon

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Gresham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97080. It stands on Middle Fork Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sandy quadrangle. 462 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 558 feet above sea level.

Orient within Multnomah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Orient between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3 acres 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 burning12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2006Other causesunder an acreMolalla UnitCHICKEN COOP
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMolalla UnitBLUFF CAR FIRE
22 September 1994Smoking1.0 acresMolalla UnitTUCKER RD
20 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLE ANN FIRE
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMolalla UnitDODGE PARK RD FIRE
26 August 2006Other causesunder an acreMolalla UnitBLUFF RD BURN
25 August 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMolalla UnitJARL RD FIRE
20 August 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersNURSERY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Multnomah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Orient: 14 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Camp Collins YmcaGeothermalProducer
Midvale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Columbia Brick WorksClayPast Producer
Columbia Brick WorksClayProducer
Midvale QuarryStonePast Producer
Oregon State Hwy Div 2Clay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Columbia ContinentalSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Multnomah 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
Pleasant Home0.9 miles26
Powell Valley2.5 miles25
Springdale3.8 miles24
Gresham4.7 miles25
Troutdale5.3 miles24
Corbett5.5 miles24
Twelvemile Corner5.6 miles24
Wood Village5.8 miles24

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 OrientAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14709175The 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 1136602. 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.