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Scio, Oregon

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Scio-Lacomb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97374. The Survey maps it on the Scio quadrangle. 956 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 317 feet above sea level.

Scio within Linn County

On record in Scio

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Scio grew from 838 to 956 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
2010838
2020956+118 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Scio between 1992 and 2019, burning about 20 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 use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Other causes2
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 2002Other causesunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFLARWOOD DRIVE
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersRICHARDSON BURNS 2
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFROGERS MTN. LOOP
19 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMILL CREEK
19 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.7 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersRODGERS MTN. FIRE
19 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSantiam UnitBROKEDOWN
18 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use9.5 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHAY GAP FIRE
10 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSantiam UnitSHINDLER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Scio: 10 past producers, 10 producers, 1 occurrence. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Iron OccurrenceIron, ManganeseOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
BrockStonePast Producer
Brock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Phillips SiteStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scio in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 1 flood, 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
September 2020HailScio-Penny to nickel size hail accumulated on the ground. Report from social media.
January 2012FloodScio-Widespread low-land flooding occurred in Linn County, resulting in considerable flood damage to homes in Scio. 870 residents of Scio had to be evacuated.

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
West Scio1.8 miles20
Shelburn2.4 miles20
Dotyville (historical)4.2 miles20
Crabtree5.5 miles20
Kingston6.7 miles16
Jordan8.1 miles12
Central (historical)8.4 miles20
Lacomb10.0 miles12

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 ScioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2796220The 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 1126672. 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.