West Salem, Oregon

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• West Salem City Hall, Oldlisted 1990 · 0.0 miles away

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.

• 1915 USGS Eola quadrangle1:31680
• 1917 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1940 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Salem West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1975 USGS Salem West quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Corvallis quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of West Salem in 2017, burning under an acre 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Brush College
• Chapman Corner
• Eola
• Kingwood Park (historical)
• Lincoln
• Salemtowne

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 64 workings within 5 miles of West Salem: 35 past producers, 24 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Polk County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1163343. 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.