Sweet Home, Oregon
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Sweet Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97386. It stands on Cotton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sweet Home quadrangle. 9,828 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 537 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSweet Home grew from 8,925 to 9,828 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,925 | |
| 2020 | 9,828 | +903 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1951 USGS Sweet Home quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Mc Kenzie River quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Sweet Home quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
164 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Sweet Home between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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 burning | 51 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 42 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Other causes | 10 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | FERNRIDGE # 2 |
| 9 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | HWY 228 # 6 |
| 8 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | CALAPOOIA POWER LINE 1 |
| 8 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | LIBERTY |
| 6 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | RIDGEWAY POWER |
| 6 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | MCQUEEN # 1 |
| 5 September 2008 | Other causes | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | OLD HOLLEY ROAD # 1 |
| 4 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | MCQUEEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 29 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Sweet Home: 17 past producers, 11 producers, 1 occurrence. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foster | Gold, Platinum, Titanium, Metal | Producer | Stream Placer | |
| Foster | Gold, PGE | Occurrence | ||
| Morse Brothers Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Morse Brothers Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sweet Home S & G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sweet Home Site | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Brubaker Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Cormier Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Forty-Four Mines | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweet Home in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2003 | Lightning | Sweet Home | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | Sweet Home | $1,033,000 | Heavy rain resulted in flooding of small streams in the Sweet Home area. Water flooded the basements and lower floors of some homes, and a rock slide closed one lane of Highway 20. |
| August 1999 | Hail | Sweet Home | - | A thunderstorm in the Cascades produced 3/4" hail near Santiam junction, 35 mile east of Sweet Home. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sweet Home | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Foster | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Liberty | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| Holley | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Calapooia | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Santiam Terrace | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Berlin | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Fairview | 7.0 miles | 16 |
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 Sweet Home | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q994957 | 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 1127827. 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.







