Saint Joseph, Oregon

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the McMinnville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97128. It stands on South Yamhill River. The Survey maps it on the McMinnville quadrangle. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Saint Joseph within Yamhill County

On record in Saint Joseph

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.

Joseph Mattey Houselisted 1977 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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.

1924 USGS Mc Minnville quadrangle1:48000
1926 USGS Mc Minnville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1926 USGS McMinnville quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS McMinnville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Mc Minnville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Yamhill River quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Saint Joseph between 1999 and 2018, burning about 90 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GUNCLUB RD. FIRE
3 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	WESTSIDE DITCH FIRE
21 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	22 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	POVERTY FIRE
15 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SHELTON ROAD FIRE
18 July 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	13 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GRANDHAVEN FIRE
16 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	WESTSIDE FIELD FIRE
14 July 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.1 acres	Forest Grove District	REDMOND HILL FIRE
6 October 2012	Smoking	1.5 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FRENCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yamhill County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Saint Joseph: 7 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Sohrweild Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Timmons Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Dayton Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dayton Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Muhs Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Penland Bar Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Penland Bar Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Sohrweild Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Yamhill 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
Lafayette	1.6 miles	22
McMinnville	3.5 miles	21
Dayton	3.8 miles	22
Carlton	4.2 miles	16
Eola Village	5.4 miles	21
Whiteson	6.6 miles	21
Yamhill	7.5 miles	16
Dundee	7.6 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 Saint Joseph	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7401536	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 1163245. 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.