Albee, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Pilot Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97880. The Survey maps it on the Ukiah quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Albee within Umatilla County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS La Grande quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Albee (historical) between 1992 and 2015, burning about 4,820 acres in total. 47 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
Natural	47
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	NACHO
4 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	CAMAS
28 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	MATCH FIRE
26 September 2011	Natural	3.2 acres	Umatilla National Forest	COLD SPRINGS
24 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	CAMAS CREEK ROAD
23 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	THISTLE #14
20 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	SWISS CABIN
17 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	SWISS FLAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Albee (historical): 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Uranium Occurrence	Uranium	Occurrence	Allanite
Uranium Occurrence	Uranium	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Umatilla 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ukiah	5.6 miles	10
Hidaway Springs	10.7 miles	10
Gurdane	11.1 miles	7
Lehman Springs	13.7 miles	10
Nye	17.5 miles	8
Pilot Rock	19.1 miles	8
McKay	25.2 miles	9
Green Meadows	28.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1137049. 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.