Svensen Junction, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Astoria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97103. It stands on Hillcrest Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cathlamet Bay quadrangle. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

Svensen Junction within Clatsop County

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.

1940 USGS Svensen quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Cathlamet Bay quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Svensen quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Astoria quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Svensen Junction between 1992 and 2019, burning about 91 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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 burning	37
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Other causes	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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Astoria District	JACK CREEK
5 September 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	TWO TONE FIRE
3 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Astoria District	KOPPISH II
27 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	POWERLINE FIRE
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Astoria District	GNAT CREEK
20 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	RUSTY SPRING
20 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BURNING CAN
19 September 2008	Other causes	under an acre	Astoria District	KNAPPA HIGH SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clatsop County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Svensen Junction: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Flagstone. 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
Unnamed Pit	Flagstone	Producer
Big Creek Pit 1	Stone	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Big Creek Pit 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Big Creek Pit 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Big Creek Pit 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Big Creek Pit 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Big Creek Pit 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Clatsop 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
Svensen	0.4 miles	17
Burnside (historical)	1.2 miles	17
Biddle (historical)	2.2 miles	17
Fern Hill	4.1 miles	17
Knappa	4.1 miles	15
Blind Slough (historical)	5.7 miles	15
Tongue Point Village	6.3 miles	15
Navy Heights	6.6 miles	15

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.

Wikidata item Q114689630

The 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 1127782. 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.