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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.

Sweet Home within Linn County

Population over time

2 figures

Sweet 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.

YearPeople Change
20108,925
20209,828+903 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

164 since 1992

Regional 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 burning51
Equipment and vehicle use42
Recreation and ceremony14
Arson/incendiarism13
Smoking11
Other causes10
Fireworks5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Firearms and explosives use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFFERNRIDGE # 2
9 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFHWY 228 # 6
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCALAPOOIA POWER LINE 1
8 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFLIBERTY
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersRIDGEWAY POWER
6 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFMCQUEEN # 1
5 September 2008Other causesunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFOLD HOLLEY ROAD # 1
4 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFMCQUEEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
FosterGold, Platinum, Titanium, MetalProducerStream Placer
FosterGold, PGEOccurrence
Morse Brothers Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Morse Brothers Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sweet Home S & GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sweet Home SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brubaker PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cormier PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Forty-Four MinesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2003LightningSweet Home1 hurtno account filed
December 2015Heavy RainSweet Home$1,033,000Heavy 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 1999HailSweet Home-A thunderstorm in the Cascades produced 3/4" hail near Santiam junction, 35 mile east of Sweet Home.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindSweet Home-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Greenville2.4 miles16
Foster3.5 miles12
Liberty3.8 miles16
Holley3.9 miles16
Calapooia4.9 miles12
Santiam Terrace5.1 miles16
Berlin6.9 miles12
Fairview7.0 miles16

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 HomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q994957The 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.