Armin, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Imnaha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97846. It stands on Coyote Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harl Butte quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Armin within Wallowa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1954 USGS Harl Butte quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Riggins quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Harl Butte quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Armin (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,257 acres in total. 36 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	36
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
8 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	not named
7 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LITTLE SHEEP
29 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	BEER CAN
9 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	GRIFFITH CREEK
7 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	MARR FLAT
6 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	GRIFFITH
4 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	PLYMOUTH
30 August 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Wallowa Unit	RAIL CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wallowa 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
Fruita	10.4 miles	11
Imnaha River Woods Development	11.3 miles	11
Joseph	12.8 miles	12
Enterprise	16.5 miles	10
Alder (historical)	16.8 miles	10
Imnaha	17.2 miles	10
Zumwalt	20.1 miles	10
Lewis	24.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1152903. 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.