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Vaughn, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Badger Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97487. It stands on Cram Creek. The Survey maps it on the Noti quadrangle.

Vaughn within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires near this place

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Vaughn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use38
Debris and open burning34
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictBADGER MTN FIRE
9 September 1992Smokingunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictPALL MALL RIDGE
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictFALCON ROAD FIRE
30 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictUPPER SWAMP
26 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictSUTTLE ROAD
25 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictWARTHEN ROAD
24 September 1994Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictPUSH OVER FIRE
22 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictPERKINS RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Vaughn: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Elmira ClayClay, Silica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
ParkerClayPast Producer
Parker RanchClayProspect

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vaughn in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
December 2007Heavy RainVaughn-Storm total precipitation was 4.91 inches at High Point RAWS.

Every storm recorded in Lane 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
Noti2.5 miles17
Veneta4.9 miles18
Elmira5.2 miles18
Crow5.6 miles11
Wolf Creek6.0 miles11
Hadleyville7.3 miles11
Walton7.9 miles13
Fern Ridge Shores7.9 miles18

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 VaughnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7917336The 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 1136864. 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.