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West Scio, Oregon

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Scio-Lacomb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97374. The Survey maps it on the Crabtree quadrangle. 126 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

West Scio within Linn County

Population over time

2 figures

West Scio grew from 120 to 126 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010120
2020126+6 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 20 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

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of West Scio between 1992 and 2019, burning about 15 acres 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
19 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMILL CREEK
18 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use9.5 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHAY GAP FIRE
8 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGAP FIRE
28 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSweet Home Unit - ODFRICHARDSON GAP#2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of West Scio: 10 past producers, 10 producers, 1 occurrence. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Iron OccurrenceIron, ManganeseOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
BrockStonePast Producer
Brock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Linn 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
Scio1.8 miles20
Shelburn1.8 miles20
Crabtree5.3 miles20
Dotyville (historical)5.7 miles20
Central (historical)7.4 miles20
Kingston7.6 miles16
Draperville9.3 miles19
Millersburg9.7 miles19

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 West ScioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16081937The 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 1136891. 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.