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Springfield, Oregon

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Eugene-Springfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97477. It lies near Kelly Butte. The Survey maps it on the Eugene East quadrangle. 61,851 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 453 feet above sea level.

Springfield within Lane County

On record in Springfield

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 9 records

Population over time

3 figures

Springfield grew from 52,864 to 61,851 between 2000 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
200052,864
201059,403+6,539 (+12%)
202061,851+2,448 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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

95 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Springfield between 1993 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 were 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/undetermined45
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking7
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural4
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictFFD140203958
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersEAST 40TH
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDELTA ROAD FIRE #2
3 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresEast Lane Unit - ODFARBORETUM FIRE
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersI-5 EXIT 191
20 September 2007Smokingunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictTIMBER LANE
2 September 1995Fireworks3.0 acresEast Lane Unit - ODFPOTATO HILL
17 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Oregon DistrictMCKENZIE VIEW 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Springfield: 21 past producers, 16 producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Eugene Sand and Gravel IncorporateStonePast Producer
Larson QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Vitus QuarryStonePast Producer
Fisher Butte QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Larson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springfield in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2015: 5 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2015FloodSpringfield$499,000The Siuslaw River flooded near Mapleton and the Mohawk River flooded near Springfield. Minor flooding of a pastureland was reported in Swisshome due to flooding of Mann Creek. A new daily rainfall record of 1.65 inches in Eugene broke the previous record of 1.35 inches last set in 1957.
February 2014FloodSpringfield-The Mohawk River near Springfield reached flood stage at 400 PM PST. The river crested at 15.1 feet at 515 PM PST, and fell below flood level at 630 PM PST.
January 2007Heavy RainSpringfield-A total accumulation of 1.48 inches was reported.
January 2006FloodSpringfield-no account filed
January 2006FloodSpringfield-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSpringfield-no account filed
December 2005FloodSpringfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lane 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
Glenwood0.7 miles19
North Springfield2.2 miles19
Eugene3.5 miles19
Goshen3.6 miles14
College Hill4.2 miles19
Thurston5.6 miles16
Bethel6.0 miles19
River Road6.5 miles19

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 SpringfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q40268The 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 1127456. 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.