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Tangent, Oregon

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97389. The Survey maps it on the Tangent quadrangle. 1,231 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 245 feet above sea level.

Tangent within Linn County

On record in Tangent

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Tangent grew from 1,164 to 1,231 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
20101,164
20201,231+67 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Tangent in 2005, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle 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
30 June 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresBaskett Slough National Wildlife RefugeVILLA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Tangent: 7 past producers, 6 producers, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Titanium, Metal. 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
Albany Plant TiTitanium, MetalPlant1968
Cox Pit and PlantStonePast Producer
Albany Rock-TruaxSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Albany Rock-TruaxSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Conser PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Conser PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Riverside5.2 miles17
Shedd5.5 miles16
Albany6.6 miles19
Draperville8.2 miles19
Peoria8.3 miles16
Burlington (historical)8.3 miles16
Central (historical)9.4 miles20
Millersburg10.0 miles19

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 TangentAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2703756The 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 1127883. 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.