BlockTriangle Lake, Oregon
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Middle Siuslaw River-Triangle Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97412. It stands on Little Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Triangle Lake quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 13 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.
- 1941 USGS Blachly quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Blachly quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Blachly quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Triangle Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
78 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Triangle Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 263 acres in total. 9 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 | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | BEAR BED FIRE |
| 5 September 2010 | Firearms and explosives use | under an acre | Western Lane District | BIG DIPPER FIRE |
| 30 September 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | Western Lane District | GRANGE ROAD |
| 25 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Western Lane District | HORTON VEHICLE FIRE #2 |
| 22 September 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Western Lane District | MILEPOST 32 FIRE |
| 22 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Western Lane District | ROCK SLIDE FIRE |
| 17 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | HORTON MARKET |
| 10 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Western Lane District | SUMICH ROAD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Triangle Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3473419 | 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 1130796. 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.