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Willowdale, Oregon

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Ashwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97741. It stands on Pony Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willowdale quadrangle. It stands 1,765 feet above sea level.

Willowdale within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Willowdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 45,564 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2001Debris and open burning400 acresPrineville DistrictWILLOWDALE
6 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePrineville DistrictHAYTRUCK
5 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution80 acresCentral Oregon Rangeland Protection Association0839 RN
4 September 1994Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresPrineville DistrictANTELOPERD
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePrineville District0599
13 September 1997Natural1.0 acresPrineville DistrictWINDYFLAT2
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePrineville District1066
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined350 acresPrineville District0513

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Willowdale: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Dimension, Volcanic Materials, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cow Canyon PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Willowdale RoseStone, DimensionPast Producer
Willowdale RoseVolcanic MaterialsProducer
Cow CanyonStonePast Producer
GrenadaStonePast Producer
GrenadaStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Gateway7.7 miles13
Ashwood11.2 miles7
Madras15.4 miles14
Donnybrook (historical)15.9 miles8
Axehandle (historical)15.9 miles8
Warm Springs17.4 miles11
Kilts19.0 miles8
Metolius19.6 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q112580456The 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 1136910. 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.