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Whitaker, Oregon

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lebanon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97355. It lies near Golden Valley. The Survey maps it on the Onehorse Slough quadrangle.

Whitaker within Linn County

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

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Whitaker between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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 burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
26 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresSweet Home Unit - ODFCASCADE DRIVE # 3
2 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWATERLOO 371
2 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFMIDDLE RIDGE #1
12 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHWY 20 POWER
31 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSweet Home Unit - ODFCASCADE DRIVE # 2
3 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters665 BELLINGER SCALE FIRE
3 August 2009Smokingunder an acreWillamette National Forest099
25 August 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSANTIAM HWY 966

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Whitaker: 16 producers, 15 past producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Brown Brothers QuarryStonePast Producer
C & SSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
C & S PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Crabtree PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crabtree PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lebanon Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lebanon Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitaker in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2020Thunderstorm WindWhitaker$25,000An empty tractor trailer was blown over.

Every storm 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
Lebanon2.3 miles23
Evansville (historical)2.8 miles23
Crowfoot3.6 miles23
South Lebanon3.9 miles23
Sodaville5.1 miles16
Waterloo5.1 miles16
Crabtree5.5 miles20
Fairview6.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1136900. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.