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Adel, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Warner Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97620. The Survey maps it on the Adel quadrangle. It stands 4,547 feet above sea level.

Adel within Lake County

On record in Adel

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Adel between 1994 and 2018, burning about 47 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 August 1996Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreLakeview DistrictBIRD
3 August 2015Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictPELICAN LAKE
2 August 2015Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictWILLOW CREEK TWO
15 August 2004Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictPELICAN
13 August 1996Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictWATERLOG
10 August 2014Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictTUMBLE
4 July 2015Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictFISH CREEK
29 July 1997Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictTOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Adel: 4 occurrences, 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Mercury, Stone, 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
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
AdelMercuryOccurrence
Adel Mercury OccurrenceMercuryOccurrence
Adle Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Crump ValleyGeothermalOccurrence
Unnamed Hot SpringGeothermalProducer
Unnamed Hot SpringGeothermalProducer
Warner ValleyGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adel in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 hail. 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
June 2009HailAdel-One inch hail was reported at the Plush store. The thunderstorm also had heavy rain and gusty winds. Hail covered the ground. Debris flows occurred on State Highway 140 west of Adel, covering the road in six places along a one mile stretch.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Plush16.2 miles10
Hot Springs (historical)22.8 miles11
Lakeview23.7 miles10
New Pine Creek24.6 miles22
Five Corners28.4 miles10
Valley Falls29.3 miles11
West Side31.8 miles10
Drews Valley (historical)42.2 miles12

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 AdelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459659The 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 1116775. 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.