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Salem, Oregon

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97301. It stands on Clark Creek. The Survey maps it on the Salem West quadrangle. 175,535 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,532 feet above sea level.

Salem within Marion County

On record in Salem

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 12 of 69 shown

Every listing in Marion County

Population over time

2 figures

Salem grew from 154,637 to 175,535 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
2010154,637
2020175,535+20,898 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Salem between 1992 and 2017, burning under an acre in total. 2 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
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSPENCER BUTTE
20 July 1992Naturalunder an acreGrand Ronde TribesW FRK SNAG
20 July 1992Naturalunder an acreGrand Ronde TribesE FRK SNAG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Salem: 37 past producers, 26 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. 26 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium, Stone. 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
Bauxite Chapman and Eola HillsAluminum, Titanium, Metal, IronOccurrenceBauxite, Gibbsite
Chapman and Eola Hills BauxiteAluminum, Titanium, IronOccurrence
Illahee HillVanadiumProspect
QuarryStonePast Producer
Hills QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Illahee HillUraniumOccurrence
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Uranium OccurrenceUraniumOccurrence
Austin BorrowSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Austin Bottow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salem in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 3 funnel cloud, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
April 1996Thunderstorm WindSalem$20,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSalem$2,000A report called in by a former spotter, strong gusty winds brought numerous trees down along Hwy. 22. Other reports from this storm included wind gusts strong enough to snap Cottonwood tree branches estimated at 10 to 12 inches in diameter along Hwy. 214.
June 2023Funnel CloudSalem-A National Weather Service Skywarn Spotter observed a funnel cloud south of Salem.
May 2007HailSalem-Reported residents estimated half an inch accumulations on the ground.
December 2006Tornado (F0)Salem-Immediately after a thunderstorm with frequent lightning and small hail, a small tornado touched down. The tornado crossed an acre and a half of floodwater up to three feet deep and sucked all the water up into the funnel. The tornado continued on and picked up a 12-inch diameter cedar tree and tossed it into a barn. The tornado then changed direction and picked up an RV and threw it on its side.
October 2003Funnel CloudSalem-no account filed
June 2001Funnel CloudSalem-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Salem Station (historical)0.5 miles20
Highland Station (historical)1.1 miles20
Badger Corner2.8 miles18
Four Corners2.9 miles18
Oak Park3.1 miles18
Keizer3.3 miles20
Liberty4.0 miles20
Hayesville4.1 miles18

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 SalemAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43919The 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 1167861. 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.