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Sumner, Oregon

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Coquille census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97420. It stands on Wilson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coos Bay quadrangle. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Sumner within Coos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Sumner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 58 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning44
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersRODDERICK RD # 2
6 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersRODDERICK RD
5 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationSHINGLEHOUSE SLOUGH
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationDANIELS CREEK
3 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationE. CATCHING SLOUGH ROAD
28 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCATCHING SLOUGH
27 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationSHINGLEHOUSE
24 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersISTHMUS SLOUGH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Sumner: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Coal. 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
Brinks Mining, Inc.Sand and Gravel, Construction, CoalPast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Fairview SiteStonePast Producer
Fairview SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Coos 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
Green Acres3.3 miles21
Coos City (historical)3.5 miles21
Kings Landing (historical)4.3 miles21
Millington4.3 miles21
Delmar4.3 miles21
Bay Park5.4 miles21
Coaledo5.5 miles19
Libby5.8 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 SumnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7637942The 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 1136798. 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.