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Sunny Valley, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Grants Pass census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97497. It stands on Salmon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Golden quadrangle. It stands 1,260 feet above sea level.

Sunny Valley within Josephine County

On record in Sunny Valley

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

225 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Sunny Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,335 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 11 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
Equipment and vehicle use69
Natural30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning19
Other causes16
Smoking15
Recreation and ceremony12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Arson/incendiarism11
Fireworks6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Firearms and explosives use1

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
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictSEXTON MTN LOOKOUT
5 September 2017Smokingunder an acreMedford DistrictSHANKS CREEK
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrants Pass UnitRAILROAD AVE 851
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresGrants Pass UnitI-5 MP 78
5 September 2000Other causesunder an acreGrants Pass UnitNORTH FRONTAGE RD.
30 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMedford DistrictJACK CREEK
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedford DistrictI 5 MP 75
3 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGrants Pass UnitPP # A-5746

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Josephine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 106 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 106 workings within 5 miles of Sunny Valley: 40 past producers, 23 occurrences, 22 prospects, 17 producers. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Silver, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
ColumbiaChromium, Platinum, GoldProducerStream Placer
Columbia PlacerGold, PGEPast Producer
Copper QueenGold, Copper, Silver, MercuryPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Gold
Copper Queen MineGold, Mercury, CopperPast Producer
GreenbackGold, Silver, Copper, ArsenicPast ProducerChalcopyrite
Greenback MineGold, Silver, Copper, ArsenicPast Producer
Horseshoe LodeGold, Silver, Copper, Manganese, TelluriumProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrite, Rhodochrosite
Horseshoe LodeGold, Tellurium, Silver, Manganese, CopperPast Producer
Macabee MineGold, Copper, SilverProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrite
Oro GrandeGold, ArsenicPast Producer1959

Every working recorded in Josephine 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
Placer3.2 miles17
Leland3.5 miles17
Greenback (historical)3.5 miles17
Golden3.8 miles17
Hugo4.0 miles17
Wolf Creek4.0 miles17
Three Pines5.2 miles17
Pleasant Valley5.7 miles17

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 Sunny ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7640757The 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 1127729. 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.