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Plum Trees, Oregon

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Port Orford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97476. It stands on Bea Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Butler quadrangle. It stands 217 feet above sea level.

Plum Trees within Curry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Plum Trees between 1993 and 2019, burning about 144 acres in total. 3 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Firearms and explosives use1
Other causes1
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
9 September 2017Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSIXES CEDAR
29 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresGold Beach UnitSIXES RIVER
29 September 1994Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National Forestnot named
27 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGold Beach UnitELEPHANT ROCK
8 August 2008Firearms and explosives useunder an acreGold Beach UnitSMALL CREEK
31 August 1993Other causesunder an acreGold Beach UnitCRYSTAL CREEK
28 August 2015Recreation and ceremony1.7 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSIXES RIVER
26 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersEDSON BUTTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Curry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Plum Trees: 17 past producers, 7 producers, 3 occurrences, 3 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Stone. 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
Adolphson & NodineManganeseOccurrence
CorbinGold, Platinum, Iridium, OsmiumProducerStream Placer
Corbin PropertyGold, Platinum, Osmium, IridiumPast Producer
Crystal CreekChromium, Platinum, GoldPast Producer
Divelbiss #2Gold, Platinum, Chromium, MercuryProducerStream Placer
Divelbliss #2Gold, Platinum, Mercury, ChromiumUnknown
Sixes River PlacersGold, Platinum, Chromium, Mercury, IridiumProducerPlacer
Sixes River PlacersGold, Iridium, PGE, Mercury, ChromiumPast Producer
Sixes River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Curry 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
Sixes6.7 miles18
Denmark7.7 miles18
Port Orford8.8 miles18
Langlois9.1 miles18
Eckley (historical)9.3 miles18
Lakeport (historical)9.7 miles18
Ophir17.4 miles17
Illahe20.4 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 Plum TreesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28153519The 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 1147806. 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.