BlockParis, Oregon
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Middle Siuslaw River-Triangle Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97390. It stands on Woosley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Five Rivers quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1942 USGS Tidewater quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Tidewater quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Five Rivers quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
15 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Paris between 1992 and 2017, burning about 94 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | GREEN RIVER |
| 14 September 1992 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Western Lane District | FIVE RIVER |
| 8 August 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Western Lane District | 5 RIVERS #1 |
| 22 August 1996 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Philomath Unit | PREACHER CREEK |
| 20 August 2004 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | MINISTER PREACHER078 |
| 13 August 2002 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Philomath Unit | LONE FIR CEMETERY |
| 13 August 2002 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Philomath Unit | WILKINSON CREEK |
| 11 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Siuslaw National Forest | PHILLIPS CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Paris | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q20712325 | 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 1153560. 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.