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Alicel, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97824. The Survey maps it on the Imbler quadrangle. It stands 2,759 feet above sea level.

Alicel within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Alicel between 1992 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 August 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresLaGrande DistrictHARRIS ROAD
30 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWIRE FIRE
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictMT HARRIS II
17 August 2010Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictINCIDENT 761
1 August 1998Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictSTANLEY
9 July 1998Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictFENCE FIRE
23 July 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHARRIS
19 July 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLaGrande DistrictGARBAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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 Alicel: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Wagner WellGeothermalProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alicel in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
July 2012HailAlicel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Imbler3.9 miles13
Island City5.6 miles10
Summerville5.9 miles10
La Grande7.9 miles10
Indian Valley (historical)9.3 miles10
Perry10.6 miles10
Hot Lake11.1 miles12
Elgin11.6 miles10

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 AlicelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473995The 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 1137126. 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.