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Point Terrace, Oregon

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Middle Siuslaw River-Triangle Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97453. It stands on Sweet Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tiernan quadrangle.

Point Terrace within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 15 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Point Terrace between 1992 and 2020, burning about 328 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 burning9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictRICE HILL 0909
5 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestSWEET CREEK
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSiuslaw National ForestNORTH FORK MP 11
20 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWestern Lane District920 TROUT POND FIRE
2 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictHWY 126 FIRE
12 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresSiuslaw National ForestBEAGLE TAYLOR
7 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictLOWER KNOWLES FIRE
5 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCoos Bay DistrictGOLDBRICK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane 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 Point Terrace: 8 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Camp QuarryStonePast Producer
Camp Quarry Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Camp Quarry Pit& PlantStonePast Producer
CampquarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Elk WallowStonePast Producer
Elk Wallow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Elk Wallow QuarryStonePast Producer
Elk Wallow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Point Terrace in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 heavy rain. 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
December 2007Heavy RainPoint Terrace-Storm total precipitation was 5.59 inches at Goodwin Peak RAWS.

Every storm recorded in Lane 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
Tiernan1.6 miles15
Mapleton3.1 miles15
Brickerville4.1 miles15
Minerva4.9 miles15
Earl (historical)5.1 miles14
Rainrock5.3 miles15
Tide5.4 miles15
Swisshome6.8 miles15

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 Q122546709The 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 1147820. 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.