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Rickreall, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Dallas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97371. It lies near Cadle Hill. The Survey maps it on the Rickreall quadrangle. 76 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Rickreall within Polk County

On record in Rickreall

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Rickreall fell from 77 to 76 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201077
202076-1 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Rickreall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBaskett Slough National Wildlife RefugeSOUTH SMITHFIELD
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use25 acresBaskett Slough National Wildlife RefugeEAST BASKETT SLOUGH
15 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDallas UnitCHURCH ROAD
12 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresBaskett Slough National Wildlife RefugeCOLVILE RD
1 September 2012Other causesunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBALLARD ROAD
9 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use55 acresBaskett Slough National Wildlife RefugeTRACTOR
3 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters22 KINGS FIRE
20 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBaskett Slough National Wildlife RefugeOR-BKR-FY18-180266

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Rickreall: 9 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Ellendale QuarryStonePast Producer
Ellendale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Freeman & Sons QuarryStonePast Producer
Freeman & Sons QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Tuff QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rickreall in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
June 2016Funnel CloudRickreall-Video of a funnel cloud over Rickreall, Oregon was shared over Social Media.
May 2015Funnel CloudRickreall-A member of the public supplied a video and photo of a funnel cloud to a local news station.
September 1997Tornado (F0)Rickreall-A weak tornado briefly touched down in rural Polk County. Some farms sustained minor crop damage.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Bowersville (historical)1.9 miles13
Fir Villa2.4 miles13
Cochrane (historical)3.2 miles16
Dallas4.8 miles13
Monmouth5.7 miles16
Eola5.8 miles20
Independence5.9 miles16
Ellendale6.8 miles13

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 RickreallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2920385The 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 1163222. 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.