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West Stayton, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97325. The Survey maps it on the Stayton quadrangle. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

West Stayton within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of West Stayton between 2003 and 2015, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
27 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFERN RIDGE FIELD
29 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSantiam UnitFERN RIDGE #2
17 July 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSantiam UnitSTAYTON CANAL
16 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSantiam UnitHWY 22 MP 13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 Stayton: 10 past producers, 7 producers, 4 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Copper OccurrenceCopperOccurrence
Iron OccurrenceIron, ManganeseOccurrence
PetersonClayOccurrence
PetersonClayOccurrence
Brock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Phillips SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stayton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
BrockStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Ale (historical)0.8 miles16
Young2.6 miles16
Aumsville3.8 miles16
Stayton4.0 miles16
Marion4.8 miles20
Sublimity4.8 miles16
Shaw6.0 miles16
Turner6.0 miles17

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 StaytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459930The 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 1128899. 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.