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Summit, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the North Benton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97326. It lies near Happy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Summit quadrangle. 72 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Summit within Benton County

Population over time

2 figures

Summit fell from 82 to 72 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
201082
202072-10 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Summit between 1995 and 2018, burning about 104 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
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
28 September 2002Smokingunder an acrePhilomath UnitMCCULLOUGH ROAD
14 September 2001Naturalunder an acrePhilomath UnitSHROYER RIDGE
9 August 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePhilomath UnitDEVITT POWER
9 August 1998Debris and open burning1.9 acresPhilomath UnitSHROYER RIDGE
9 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreToledo UnitELLMARK 98
3 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresPhilomath UnitBLODGETT
29 August 2016Debris and open burning12 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLASKY POWERLINE FIRE
22 August 2014Railroad operations and maintenance1.1 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSPILDE CREEK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Summit: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hardrock QuarryStonePast Producer
Hardrock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oregon State Highway DivisionStonePast Producer
Oregon State Highway DivisionStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2017: 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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 2017FloodSummit-Heavy rain caused the Siletz River at Siletz to flood. The river crested at 19.07 feet, which is 3.07 feet above flood stage.
November 2006Heavy RainSummit-Recorded a 5-day total of 7.8 inches.

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Blodgett4.2 miles13
Alder5.3 miles13
Hoskins6.4 miles19
Peak (historical)6.5 miles13
Harris7.5 miles19
Wren8.7 miles19
Kings Valley9.0 miles19
Keas Corner11.5 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 SummitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7637745The 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 1127711. 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.