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Shaw, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97325. It stands on Walker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stayton quadrangle. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Shaw within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Shaw between 2000 and 2019, burning about 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
2 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSantiam UnitTRIUMPH ROAD
15 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTRIUMPH RD. FIRE
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTREE HAVEN COMPLEX
31 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSantiam UnitCASCADE FIRE
30 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSantiam UnitCASCADE HWY FIRE
30 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSantiam UnitWALDO HILLS
14 October 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTRIUMPH PILE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Shaw: 8 past producers, 7 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal. 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 Waldo HillsAluminum, Iron, Titanium, MetalOccurrenceBauxite, Gibbsite
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Waldo Hills BauxiteAluminum, Titanium, IronOccurrence
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Turner Sand and Gravel QuarryStonePast Producer
Victor Point QuarryStonePast Producer
Victor Point QuarryStonePast Producer
Macleay ClayClayOccurrence
Macleay ClayClayOccurrence
PetersonClayOccurrence

Every working 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
Aumsville2.2 miles16
Macleay2.5 miles18
Young3.4 miles16
Clymer (historical)4.2 miles16
Turner4.7 miles17
Sublimity5.1 miles16
Fruitland5.6 miles18
Ale (historical)5.9 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 ShawAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7491134The 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 1160995. 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.