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Silverton, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Silverton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97381. The Survey maps it on the Silverton quadrangle. 10,484 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Silverton within Marion County

On record in Silverton

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 12 of 13 shown

Every listing in Marion County

Population over time

2 figures

Silverton grew from 9,222 to 10,484 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
20109,222
202010,484+1,262 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Silverton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 86 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 burning25
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Other causes5
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSantiam UnitDAVIS CREEK
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSantiam Unit213 GRASS
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSantiam UnitVICTOR POINT RD. #1.
4 September 2014Other causes1.0 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLAURIE LANE
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSantiam UnitVICTOR POINT #2
3 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreMolalla UnitENDRESON
26 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDAVIS CREEK GRASS
24 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSantiam UnitMASCHER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Silverton: 8 past producers, 8 producers, 3 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Clay Occurrence #1ClayOccurrence
Fall Creek Ranch DepositClayOccurrence
Victor Point Locality No. 19ClayOccurrence
Abiqua Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Abiqua Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pembroke/Silverton Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pembroke/Silverton Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Davis CreekStonePast Producer
Davis Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hickman PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silverton in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 tornado. 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
October 1998Tornado (F0)Silverton-A Silverton Police Officer reported seeing a tornado touch down near Silverton between 330 and 345 PM. No damages or injuries were reported.

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
Bethany1.9 miles16
Downs2.6 miles16
Willard (historical)4.4 miles16
Mount Angel4.4 miles16
North Howell5.1 miles16
Dominic (historical)5.6 miles16
Pratum6.0 miles18
Scotts Mills6.6 miles15

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 SilvertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q947353The 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 1126975. 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.