Royal, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Cottage Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97424. It stands on Muslin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lorane quadrangle.

Royal within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1921 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Lorane quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Royal between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 4 were 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	22
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	13
Natural	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	4
Fireworks	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	2

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
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Western Lane District	BENNETT CK BEE FARM FIRE
8 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	CG LORANE ROAD FIRE
6 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ELM STREET
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FIR GROVE DUSTY GRAVE
5 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	GOWDYVILL2
29 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	VEATCH ROAD
26 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Western Lane District	MT. DAVID BARN FIRE
23 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Western Lane District	BOHMIA SCHOOL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane 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 Royal: 11 past producers, 5 producers. 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Zumwalt and Williams Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fawn Peak Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Horn & Wright Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
West Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fawn Peak Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Horn & Wright Pit	Stone	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cottage Grove	4.2 miles	13
Saginaw	4.6 miles	13
Veatch	5.0 miles	13
Latham	5.0 miles	13
Walker	5.2 miles	13
Mill Camp	5.5 miles	13
Lorane	5.8 miles	13
Siuslaw (historical)	7.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1136715. 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.