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Scotts Mills, Oregon

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Silverton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97375. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Scotts Mills quadrangle. 419 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Scotts Mills within Marion County

Population over time

2 figures

Scotts Mills grew from 357 to 419 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
2010357
2020419+62 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Scotts Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 703 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Fireworks1
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
9 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersELECTRIC FIRE
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSantiam UnitDAVIS CREEK
8 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution532 acresMolalla UnitWHILHOIT RD.
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMolalla UnitNOWLENS BRIDGE FIRE
7 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMolalla Unit213 GRASS
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSantiam Unit213 GRASS
6 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSantiam UnitSILVER FALLS HWY
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCOMER COOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Scotts Mills: 23 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Floyd Grahm Consr CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Beaver CreekLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Marquam Limestone DepositLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Asboe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Davis Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jorgenson ConstStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Scotts Mills PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tycer PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scotts Mills in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 1 heavy rain, 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 2023HailScotts Mills-Public report of 1 inch hail. No known report of damage. Duration of event estimated from radar.
December 2007Heavy RainScotts Mills-Storm total precipitation was 5.40 inches.

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
Noble (historical)3.2 miles15
Monitor5.8 miles15
Dominic (historical)6.1 miles16
Silverton6.6 miles16
Downs6.7 miles16
Mount Angel7.2 miles16
Drake Crossing8.1 miles13
Bethany8.2 miles16

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 Scotts MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2019248The 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 1163262. 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.