Walker, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Cottage Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97426. It lies near Lynx Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cottage Grove quadrangle.

Walker within Lane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1921 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Roseburg quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Cottage Grove quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

79 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Walker between 1993 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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	17
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	5
Other causes	4
Fireworks	2

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 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Western Lane District	BENNETT CK BEE FARM FIRE
6 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ELM STREET
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FIR GROVE DUSTY GRAVE
6 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DAVISSON ROAD
5 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	BRYSON SEARS
3 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	DOWENS ROAD
29 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	VEATCH ROAD
26 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Western Lane District	MT. DAVID BARN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Walker: 14 past producers, 9 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
O & C Land	Nickel	Unknown
O&C Lands	Nickel	Occurrence
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Fawn Peak Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Fawn Peak Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Horn & Wright Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Horn & Wright Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Pleasant Hill Ranch Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Pleasant Hill Ranch Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saginaw	1.5 miles	13
Cottage Grove	4.0 miles	13
Creswell	4.5 miles	14
Royal	5.2 miles	13
Latham	5.6 miles	13
Walden	5.7 miles	13
Cloverdale	6.2 miles	14
Veatch	7.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1166717. 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.