Crook County, Oregon

52 topographic sheets cover 8 settlements here, and 6 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Research this county

From the record

6 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Oregon within the United States

Crook County within Oregon

What the record shows

100 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
6 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 6 buildings.
The Geographic Names Information System records 8 populated places in this county; 8 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Property	Type	Listed	Reference
Thomas M. Baldwin House	building	1987	87001523
Crook County Bank Building	building	1991	91000802
Marion Reed Elliott House	building	1989	89000049
Lamonta Compound-Prineville Supervisor's Warehouse	building	1986	86000846
Old First National Bank of Prineville, and Foster and Hyde Store	building	1985	85003035
Roba Ranch, The	building	2007	07001159

Wildfire, 1992 to 2020

2,422 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 2,422 of them, burning about 64,605 acres. 1,801 started naturally and 23 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	1801
Recreation and ceremony	307
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	113
Debris and open burning	68
Equipment and vehicle use	46
Smoking	33
Arson/incendiarism	23
Other causes	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Fireworks	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Firearms and explosives use	3

The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 August 2000	Natural	18,500 acres	Ochoco National Forest	HASH ROCK 1086
17 July 2014	Natural	9,848 acres	Ochoco National Forest	0386 FOX
18 July 2012	Natural	5,557 acres	Prineville District	BUCK CREEK 0280
9 September 2017	Natural	4,635 acres	Ochoco National Forest	1135 PR DESOLATION
16 August 2020	Natural	4,020 acres	Ochoco National Forest	FROG 0657 RS
9 July 1994	Natural	3,000 acres	Prineville District	HORSEHEAVN
13 July 2014	Natural	2,515 acres	Prineville District	0297 CENTER
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1,445 acres	Prineville District	0624 EAST MAURY

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1987 to 2024

60 of 78 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 78 reports for this county, causing no deaths, no injuries and about $20,138,100 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event	Reports
Hail	52
Flash Flood	7
Heavy Rain	7
Thunderstorm Wind	7
Lightning	4
Flood	1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2006	Hail	Prineville	$20,000,000	no account filed
May 2016	Lightning	Goering Airstrip	$100,000	Lightning started a house fire. Approx damage to house when fire was put out was around 100,000 dollars.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Powell Butte	$20,000	Slow moving thunderstorm with heavy rain and small hail resulted in flash flood. Flooding washed out portion of the road near Shumway and Busset.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Prineville	$15,000	House flooded with 4 feet of water in basement. Time estimated from radar.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Prineville	$2,000	Six to eight inch diameter tree branches were blown down across power lines causing power outage to southwest part of Prineville.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Prineville	$1,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Prineville	$100	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Goering Airstrip	-	A trained spotter reported 4 large trees toppled in their neighborhood, with power having also gone out around 7:50pm on July 16th.
May 2023	Flash Flood	Powell Butte	-	A Cocorahs station reported that heavy rainfall from training thunderstorms between 1700 to 1800 PDT resulted in localized flooding of fields and roads, with minor debris was left behind from receding flood waters. Relayed via a public internet community board, there were several reports from Brasada Ranch resort that homes, roads, and a golf course were damaged by the flash flooding.
May 2023	Hail	Goering Airstrip	-	A trained spotter reported 0.88in hail at 1556L.
August 2021	Hail	Goering Airstrip	-	A trained spotter in Crook county, OR reported quarter sized hail and that there had been damage to Aluminum siding.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Prineville	-	Thirty foot tall tree blown down.
August 2019	Hail	Prineville	-	Hail covering the ground with standing water on some flood prone roadways.
August 2019	Hail	Powell Butte	-	Dime sized hail and torrential rain.
July 2012	Hail	Prineville	-	Hail accompanied by wind gust to 40 mph.
January 2011	Flood	Post	-	Ice jams which plugged culverts combined with rainfall and melting snow caused flooding. This prompted the closure of Conant Basin Road near Post and also Juniper Canyon Road.
June 2009	Heavy Rain	Prineville	-	Water covering the road at the entrance to Prineville due to heavy rainfall.
July 2009	Hail	Prineville	-	Hail 3/4 inch to 1 inch fell for 15 minutes.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Prineville	-	Two inch diameter tree limbs blown down. Tree limb 1 foot in diameter also blown down.
July 2008	Hail	Prineville	-	Hail size between dime and quarter size.
August 2008	Hail	Prineville Reservoir	-	Large hail reported near Prineville Reservoir State Park.
August 2008	Hail	Powell Butte	-	Reported by Prineville Police Department.
July 2006	Hail	Prineville	-	Quarter sized hail producing dents in car.
August 2006	Hail	Prineville Reservoir	-	Golfball hail near Roberts.
August 1999	Hail	Prineville	-	Wind gusts up to 27 mph and frequent lightning accompanied this storm
May 1998	Hail	Prineville	-	Thunderstorms moved through Crook County with strong wind, hail, and heavy rain. In the town of Post, 0.70 inches of rain fell in 50 minutes with 1/3 inch hail and wind gusts to 30 mph. In Prineville, 1/4 to 1 inch hail covered the ground to a depth of one inch in places, up to 1.15 inches of rain fell in 20 minutes, and the wind gusted to 60 mph. The road from Post to Prineville had rock and mud slides on it.
May 1998	Hail	Prineville	-	A thunderstorm produced up to 1 inch hail, heavy rain, and wind gusts to between 50 and 60 mph. 1/2 inch hail covered the ground to a depth of one inch. 1.13 inches of rain fell in 20 minutes. Highway 26 east of Prineville had mud slides on it.
May 1998	Heavy Rain	Prineville	-	Two inches of rain fell in 24 hours.
May 1998	Heavy Rain	Post	-	0.70 inches of rain fell in 50 minutes with 1/3 inch hail and wind gusts to 30 mph.
April 1998	Lightning	Prineville	-	A thunderstorm moved through Deschutes, Crook, and Wheeler counties. Lightning caused a power pole to catch fire 3 miles northeast of Prineville. One quarter to one half inch hail covered the ground in eight miles north of Bend. Five eighths inch hail and 30 mph wind were reported in the town of Post. Heavy rain, strong wind, and pea-sized hail were reported in the town of Fossil. The storm moved through the town of Spray with heavy rain and strong wind gusting to 40-50 mph.
May 1998	Heavy Rain	Prineville	-	A spotter reported 0.75 inches of rain in twenty minutes. Another spotter reported wind gusts to 45 mph with this thunderstorm.
June 1998	Heavy Rain	Post	-	One inch of rain fell in ten minutes.
June 1998	Heavy Rain	Prineville	-	Spotters in Prineville reported up to two inches of rain in 20 minutes, hail up to 1/2 inch, and wind gusts to 30 mph.
July 1998	Heavy Rain	Prineville	-	Close to one inch of rain fell in half an hour causing local flooding. Highway 126 had water over it.
July 1998	Hail	Prineville	-	A spotter 15 miles north of Prineville reported 3/4 inch hail and a heavy downpour that lasted 45 minutes. Allen Creek over flowed its banks. Some roads were washed out.
August 1997	Hail	Prineville	-	A weather spotter at Prineville Resevoir State Park reported dime sized hail and up to an inch of rain in 30 minutes. Another spotter three miles north of Prineville Resevoir reported marble sized hail.
July 1997	Lightning	Prineville	-	A lightning strike touched off a one and a half acre fire on a residential hillside in Prineville. Homeowners were able to fight the fire with garden hoses. No homes were damaged.
August 1997	Hail	Prineville	-	Weather spotters reported hail between .5 and .75 of an inch...covering the ground in places. One spotter reported 0.70 of an inch of rain in twenty minutes.
May 1997	Flash Flood	Powell Butte	-	A thunderstorm sent a 2-foot wall of water through several homes and fields soaking carpet and scattering silt over several hundered acres. The water also took out fences and caused damage to a road.
May 2016	Hail	Powell Butte	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Powell Butte	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Prineville Arpt	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Foley Butte	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Prineville Arpt	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Powell Butte	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Powell Butte	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Powell Butte	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Prineville	-	no account filed

Mines and quarries

298 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 298 workings inside this county. 76 still produce and 222 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity	Workings
Mercury	94
Sand and Gravel, Construction	57
Stone, Crushed/Broken	39
Stone	33
Gemstone	22
Gold	13
Uranium	9
Bentonite	5
Gypsum-Anhydrite	4
Pumice	4
Zeolites	3
Volcanic Materials	3
Clay	2
Iron	2

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Big Timber	Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Big Timber	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Camp Creek Area	Geothermal	Producer
Mayflower Mine	Gold, Antimony, Copper, Lead, Mercury, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Mother Lode Mine	Mercury, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	1899, 1906
Ochoco	Gold, Lead, Silver, Mercury, Antimony, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Oregon Grape	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Oregon Grape	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Suplee Limestone Area	Limestone, General	Unknown
Westerling	Mercury, Copper	Occurrence	1930
White Swan	Mercury, Molybdenum, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Arsenic, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Cinnabar
Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Hampton Butte	Manganese	Occurrence
Hampton Butte Prospect	Manganese	Occurrence	1931
Little Hay Creek Prospect	Chromium	Prospect
Lucky Strike	Semiprecious Gemstone	Producer
Rainbow Ridge Mine	Semiprecious Gemstone	Producer
Suplee Area Iron	Iron	Occurrence
Suplee Area Iron	Iron	Occurrence
Taylor Ranch Mine	Chromium	Past Producer	1938, 1940
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Producer
Crooked River Tuff	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Evergreen Bentonite, Incpit	Zeolites	Past Producer
Oregon Emerald Tuff Quarry	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Sage Hollow Mining Inc.	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Steins Pillar Area Zeolite	Zeolites	Occurrence
Steins Pillar Area Zeolite	Zeolites	Unknown
Crook County Cinder Pit	Pumice	Producer
Grassy Butte Cinder Pit	Pumice	Producer
Gypsite Occurence	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Gypsite Occurence	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Unknown
Prineville Reservoir Community Pit	Pumice	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Pumice	Producer
White Swan Gypsum	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Unknown
White Swan Gypsun	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Central Oregon Bentonite	Bentonite	Past Producer
Central Oregon Bentonite	Bentonite	Producer
Evergreen Bentonite Pit	Bentonite	Producer
Prineville Bentonite	Bentonite	Past Producer
Prineville Bentonite	Bentonite	Unknown
Bear Creek	Uranium	Unknown
Bear Creek Butte Uranium	Uranium	Unknown
Bear Creek Uranium	Uranium	Occurrence	1955
Bear Creek Uranium	Uranium	Prospect
Games Guide Group	Uranium	Occurrence
Games Guide Group	Uranium	Unknown
Powell Butte Uranium	Mercury, Uranium	Occurrence	1955
Powell Butte Uranium	Uranium, Mercury	Unknown
Sage Hollow Mining Inc	Uranium	Occurrence	Uranophane
Bear Creek Project	Gold	Occurrence
Bear Creek Project	Gold	Past Producer
Bear Creek Project	Gold	Prospect
Blevins Prospect	Mercury, Gold	Prospect
Gold Prospect	Gold	Occurrence
Last Chance	Gold	Occurrence
Little Chance	Gold	Occurrence
Little Chance Mine	Gold	Occurrence
Scissors Creek Area Placers	Gold	Past Producer
Scissors Creek Area Placers	Gold	Past Producer
Bear Springs	Gemstone	Past Producer
Bear Springs	Gemstone	Producer
Fly Ridge	Gemstone	Past Producer
Fly Ridge	Gemstone	Producer
Lavish Lady	Gemstone	Past Producer
Lavish Lady	Gemstone	Producer
Little Smaky	Gemstone	Past Producer
Little Smaky	Gemstone	Producer
Lucky Strike	Gemstone	Past Producer
Lucky Strike Mine	Gemstone	Past Producer
Ochoco Agate Mining Claim	Gemstone	Producer
Ochoco Mining Agate Cl	Gemstone	Past Producer
Sleeping Beauty	Gemstone	Past Producer
Sleeping Beauty	Gemstone	Producer
Smoky Blue	Gemstone	Past Producer
Smoky Blue	Gemstone	Producer
Tamarack	Gemstone	Past Producer
Tamarak	Gemstone	Producer
Two Dogs	Gemstone	Past Producer
Two Dogs	Gemstone	Producer
White Fir	Gemstone	Past Producer
White Fir	Gemstone	Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Brooks Resources	Stone	Past Producer
Buckner Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Crooked River Tuff	Stone	Past Producer
Fox Canyon Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Jageye	Stone	Past Producer
Jagi Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Jagi Pit	Stone	Producer
Layton	Stone	Past Producer
Ochoco Highway	Stone	Past Producer
Ochoco Highway	Stone	Past Producer
Oregon Emerald Tuff Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Paulina	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Rafter #2	Stone	Past Producer
Rickman	Stone	Past Producer
Rocky Canyon	Stone	Past Producer
Suplee Limestone Area	Stone	Past Producer
Weberg Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Weberg Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Brooks Resources	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Buckner Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Congleton Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crook County #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Crook County Cinder Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Fox Canyon Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hudspeth	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Jageye Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Jones-McKay Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Juniper Canyon	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Layton	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lone Pine Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ochoco Hgihway Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ochoco Highway Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Paulina Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Prinevile Reservoir	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rafter #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rickman Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rocky Canyon	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Stahancyk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Weberg Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Weberg Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bear Creek	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Camp Creek	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Camp Creek	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Congleton	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crook County #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crook County #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crook County #3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Crook County #4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crook County #4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Evergreen Bentonite Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Grassy Butte Cinder Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Griffin Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Griffin Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hudspeth	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jones-McKay	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jungle Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Juniper Canyon	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lone Pine Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lost Creek	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lost Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Modular Crushing #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Modular Crushing #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Modular Crushing Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Modular Crushing Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mp 12.5 Ochoco Highway	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mp 12.5 Ochoco Highway	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mp 23.6 Ochoco Highway	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mp 23.6 Ochoco Highway	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
O'Neal Sand and Gravel Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
O'Neil Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pieratt	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Prineville Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Prineville Sand& Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Quens Lease	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Quens Lease	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Riverside Ranch	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Riverside Ranch Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Stahancyk Grizzly Mtn Rock Prod	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tachman	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Walter J Osborne	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Walter J. Osborne	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Widow Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Widow Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Williams Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Williams Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Allison	Mercury	Occurrence	1931
Allison Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Amity Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1929, 1930
Amity Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1930
Amundson Mercury	Mercury	Occurrence	Cinnabar
Amundson Mercury	Mercury	Prospect
Barnes Butte	Mercury	Past Producer	1940
Barnes Butte Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1940, 1941
Beale	Mercury	Occurrence
Beale Prospect	Mercury	Unknown
Blevins	Mercury	Occurrence	1931
Blue Ridge	Mercury	Past Producer	1930
Blue Ridge Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1930
Botz	Mercury	Occurrence	1931
Botz Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Bryam-Oscar	Mercury	Past Producer	1932
Byram-Oscar Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1932, 1935
Champion	Mercury	Past Producer	1930
Champion Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1930, 1934
Cinnabar	Mercury	Past Producer
Cinnabar	Mercury	Unknown
Connant Basin	Mercury	Occurrence
Connant Basin	Mercury	Unknown
Devil's Food	Mercury	Occurrence	1932
Devil's Food Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Eickemeyer Prospect	Mercury	Occurrence	Cinnabar
Eickemeyer Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Gray Prairie	Mercury	Occurrence	1930
Gray Prairie Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Hudson	Mercury	Occurrence	1939
Hudson Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Ideal	Mercury	Occurrence	Cinnabar, Limonite
Ideal Cinnabar	Mercury	Occurrence
Ideal Cinnabar Mine	Mercury	Prospect
Ideal Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Independent	Mercury	Occurrence	Cinnabar, Pyrite
Independent Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Israel	Mercury	Occurrence	1931
Israel Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Jimmy Ann	Mercury	Past Producer	1927
Joe Dandy	Mercury	Occurrence
Joe Dandy	Mercury	Prospect
Johnson	Mercury	Occurrence	Cinnabar
Johnson Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Kidnap Spring	Mercury	Occurrence	1931
Kidnap Spring Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Little Hay Creek	Mercury	Occurrence	1930
Log Cabin	Mercury	Prospect
Lost Cinnabar	Mercury	Producer	1930
M.A.S. No 1,2,3,&,4	Mercury	Occurrence
M.A.S. Nos. 1-4	Mercury	Past Producer
Maury Mountain Mines	Mercury	Past Producer	1930, 1932
Maury Mountains Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1930
Moore	Mercury	Occurrence	Cinnabar
Moore Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Mother Lode	Mercury	Past Producer	1902
New Deal	Mercury	Occurrence
New Deal	Mercury	Prospect
Ontko	Mercury	Occurrence	1930
Ontko Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Orion Mining Co.	Mercury	Occurrence	Cinnabar
Oronogo	Mercury	Past Producer	1927
Oronogo Mine	Mercury	Past Producer
Peaslee Creek	Mercury	Occurrence	Cinnabar
Peaslee Creek Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Pinkey	Mercury	Occurrence	1938
Pinkey Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Platner	Mercury	Past Producer	1930
Platner Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1930, 1939
Red Warrior	Mercury	Occurrence
Red Warrior	Mercury	Unknown
Round Mountain	Mercury	Past Producer	1933
Round Mountain Prospect	Mercury	Past Producer
Salt Creek	Mercury	Occurrence	1940
Salt Creek Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Staley Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1927, 1928
Strickland Butte Mine	Mercury	Past Producer	1940
Strickland Butte Mine	Mercury	Past Producer
Taylor Ranch	Mercury	Past Producer	1938
Towner	Mercury	Past Producer
Viewpoint	Mercury	Occurrence
Viewpoint Prospect	Mercury	Unknown
Watson	Mercury	Past Producer	Cinnabar
Watson Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Wesserling	Mercury	Occurrence
Wesserling Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Wildfire Cinnabar	Mercury	Occurrence
Wildfire Cinnabar	Mercury	Prospect

Every populated place in the county

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

Forest Crossing

Powell Butte census division · 97760 · On Lone Pine Creek · O'Neil quadrangle

15 sheets, 1926 to 1980
Juniper Canyon

Crooked River census division · 97754 · Stearns Butte quadrangle

9 sheets, 1955 to 1988
Paulina

Crooked River census division · 97751 · Near X X Ridge · Paulina quadrangle

14 sheets, 1932 to 1992
Post

Crooked River census division · 97752 · On Horse Heaven Creek · Post quadrangle

11 sheets, 1951 to 1992
Powell Butte

Powell Butte census division · 97753 · Powell Butte quadrangle

16 sheets, 1926 to 1980
Prineville

Prineville census division · 97754 · Near Putnam Gulch · Prineville quadrangle

10 sheets, 1955 to 1992
Roberts

Crooked River census division · 97754 · Alkali Flat quadrangle

11 sheets, 1946 to 1990
Suplee

Crooked River census division · 97751 · Near Colpitts Butte · Suplee quadrangle

14 sheets, 1932 to 1992

Provenance

Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
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.