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Oreana, Idaho

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Murphy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83650. It stands on Hart Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oreana quadrangle. It stands 2,815 feet above sea level.

Oreana within Owyhee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Oreana between 1997 and 2017, burning about 1,055 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Natural2

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
5 September 1997Natural73 acresBoise DistrictFOSSILBUTT
27 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresBoise DistrictMM40 HWY78
15 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoise DistrictCLOUDBURST
17 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresBoise DistrictMM44 HWY78
11 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresBoise DistrictOREO
9 July 2012Natural782 acresBoise DistrictMM43 HWY78
19 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoise DistrictFOSSILCRK
5 June 2016Debris and open burning191 acresBoise DistrictWEES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owyhee County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Oreana: 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Chucker HillSilverPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pumice DepositPumiceUnknown
Pumicite OccurrenceVolcanic MaterialsOccurrence
FormanGeothermalProspect
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Owyhee County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oreana in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 1998Tornado (F0)Oreana1 hurt, $30,000During the evening of July 10th a manufactured home was flipped over in the town of Oreana. One man inside the home was slightly injured. A NWS storm survey team determined that the damage was caused by an F0 tornado. The tornado was short lived and did no other significant damage.
April 2020HailOreana-A trained spotter in Oreana reported large hail measuring 1.75 inches.
September 2013Flash FloodOreana-Water was running in Castle Creek at Oreana for the first time this year and was overflowing from a ditch and was running across the driveway.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindOreana-A trained spotter near Oreana, Idaho reported wind gusts up to 60 MPH.
August 2009HailOreana-A trained spotter near Oreana reported three quarter inch hail.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindOreana-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owyhee 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
Morgan Place7.4 miles17
Sinker (historical)7.7 miles13
Spiry Place9.9 miles9
Carothers Place (historical)11.9 miles9
Murphy14.1 miles13
Doyle Place14.7 miles9
Crill Place16.0 miles9
Grand View16.6 miles14

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 OreanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16896225The 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 396985. 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.