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Sheridan, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Sheridan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97378. The Survey maps it on the Sheridan quadrangle. 4,639 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 189 feet above sea level.

Sheridan within Yamhill County

On record in Sheridan

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Sheridan fell from 6,127 to 4,639 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
20106,127
20204,639-1,488 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Sheridan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural3
Fireworks3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2002Natural117 acresForest Grove DistrictDUPEE VALLEY FIRE
21 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreForest Grove DistrictROCK CREEK
2 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresForest Grove DistrictGRAUER ROAD FIRE
15 September 2006Other causesunder an acreDallas UnitBUCK HOLLOW RD.
12 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresForest Grove DistrictSUNNYRIDGE BURN
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWILEY ROAD FIRE
24 August 2005Fireworks2.1 acresForest Grove DistrictSUNNY RIDGE FIRE
23 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreForest Grove DistrictBEAVER CREEK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yamhill County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Sheridan: 7 past producers, 6 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Kindell Weir ProspectSilver, Copper, GoldOccurrence
Kindell Weir ProspectSilver, Copper, GoldProspect
Buell LimestoneLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Buell LimestoneLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
QuarryStonePast Producer
Tschanz QuarryStonePast Producer
Tschanz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williams PitStonePast Producer
Williams PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Yamhill County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheridan in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 heavy rain. 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
December 2015Heavy RainSheridan$146,000The Oregon State route 22 was closed due to erosion (sinkhole) from heavy rain. Oregon state route 153 was closed due to high water on the roads between mile markers 1 and 6.

Every storm recorded in Yamhill 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
Bellevue4.3 miles17
Willamina5.0 miles17
Amity10.0 miles21
Whiteson11.1 miles21
Grand Ronde Agency11.6 miles15
McMinnville12.9 miles21
Eola Crest13.5 miles21
Eola Village13.6 miles21

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 SheridanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2107670The 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 1163267. 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.