Starrs Point, Oregon

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Junction City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97456. It stands on Browning Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Starrs Point within Lane County

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.

1911 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:31680
1922 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1939 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Starrs Point (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Debris and open burning	10
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Other causes	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BELLFOUNTAIN
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	TURNBOW FIRE
4 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	FERGUSON LAWN
23 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	CHERRY CREEK
22 September 2001	Other causes	under an acre	Western Lane District	OWENS CREEK FIRE
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Western Lane District	CORY ROAD FIRE
18 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	HAMMER CR.
13 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	J.D.#1 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Starrs Point (historical): 20 past producers, 8 producers, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Monroe Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Borgaard Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jensen	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jensen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Melvin Becker	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Melvin Becker Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lancaster	5.4 miles	16
Cheshire	5.6 miles	17
Junction City	5.9 miles	18
Estrup (historical)	6.9 miles	17
Franklin	7.6 miles	17
Goldson	7.8 miles	17
Alvadore	10.1 miles	17
Low Pass	10.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1166750. 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.