BlockWalton, Oregon
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Badger Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97490. It stands on Chickahominy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Walton quadrangle. It stands 456 feet above sea level.
On record in Walton
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 1 record
Wildcat Creek Bridgelisted 1979
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 Walton quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Eugene quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
58 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Walton between 1992 and 2018, burning about 781 acres in total. 6 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 use | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Western Lane District | BADGER MTN FIRE |
| 6 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Western Lane District | MP 28 HWY 126 |
| 3 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Western Lane District | T-BONE FIRE |
| 28 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 243 acres | Northwest Oregon District | AUSTA |
| 22 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest Oregon District | SWAMPY PHONE |
| 21 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Western Lane District | ROCK CREEK |
| 18 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Western Lane District | HALE DALE |
| 17 September 1992 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Western Lane District | CHICKAHOMENY #1 |
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 Walton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7966702 | 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 1136877. 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.