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.
Population over time
2 figuresScotts 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 357 | |
| 2020 | 419 | +62 (+17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS Molalla quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Molalla quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Scotts Mills quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Oregon City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
94 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | ELECTRIC FIRE |
| 9 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Santiam Unit | DAVIS CREEK |
| 8 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 532 acres | Molalla Unit | WHILHOIT RD. |
| 8 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Molalla Unit | NOWLENS BRIDGE FIRE |
| 7 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Molalla Unit | 213 GRASS |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Santiam Unit | 213 GRASS |
| 6 September 1999 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Santiam Unit | SILVER FALLS HWY |
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | COMER COOP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 30 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floyd Grahm Consr Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Beaver Creek | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Marquam Limestone Deposit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Asboe Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Davis Creek Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Jorgenson Const | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Scotts Mills Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Tycer Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2023 | Hail | Scotts Mills | - | Public report of 1 inch hail. No known report of damage. Duration of event estimated from radar. |
| December 2007 | Heavy Rain | Scotts Mills | - | Storm total precipitation was 5.40 inches. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noble (historical) | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Monitor | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Dominic (historical) | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Silverton | 6.6 miles | 16 | |
| Downs | 6.7 miles | 16 | |
| Mount Angel | 7.2 miles | 16 | |
| Drake Crossing | 8.1 miles | 13 | |
| Bethany | 8.2 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 Scotts Mills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2019248 | 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 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.







