Pratum, Oregon

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97305. It stands on South Fork Pudding River. The Survey maps it on the Salem East quadrangle. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Pratum within Marion County

On record in Pratum

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

McCallister-Gash Farmhouselisted 1980 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1925 USGS Stayton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1941 USGS Stayton quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Stayton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Salem East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1983 USGS North Santiam River quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS North Santiam River quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Pratum between 1992 and 2012, burning about 5 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 burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	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
3 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Molalla Unit	ENDRESON
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Santiam Unit	MASCHER
16 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santiam Unit	CASCADE PILE
14 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santiam Unit	FINLAY SHED
7 August 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	EGAN
17 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Molalla Unit	GRANGE HALL
23 July 2003	Other causes	under an acre	Santiam Unit	OREGON GARDEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pratum: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Macleay Clay	Clay	Occurrence
Macleay Clay	Clay	Occurrence
Victor Point Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Victor Point Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fruitland	3.0 miles	18
Macleay	3.6 miles	18
Lachmund (historical)	4.0 miles	18
Willard (historical)	4.2 miles	16
Hazel Green	4.4 miles	15
Middle Grove	4.7 miles	18
Bethany	4.9 miles	16
North Howell	5.0 miles	16

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 Pratum	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473450	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 1166698. 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.