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Arock, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Jordan Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97910. It lies near Grahams Hill. The Survey maps it on the Arock quadrangle. It stands 3,727 feet above sea level.

Arock within Malheur County

On record in Arock

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

5 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Arock between 1992 and 2017, burning about 2,549 acres in total. 8 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
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 August 2011Natural1,742 acresVale DistrictPASCUAL 1
6 August 2011Natural1.2 acresVale DistrictPASCUAL 2
5 August 2009Natural8.5 acresVale DistrictHIDDEN RESERVOIR
16 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVale DistrictM P 43
15 August 2006Natural735 acresVale DistrictAROCK
9 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresVale DistrictROME
28 July 2017Natural20 acresVale DistrictBOGUS
24 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresVale DistrictMILE P 45

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Malheur County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Arock: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Arock RiprapStonePast Producer
Arock Riprap Community PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arock #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arock #1 Community PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Montgomery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Montgomery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Malheur County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arock in 1 storm report in 1998: 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 1998HailArock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Malheur 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
Rome7.5 miles9
Danner10.0 miles9
Jordan Valley25.3 miles9
Watson (historical)28.8 miles8
Sheaville29.1 miles7
Crowley32.6 miles6
Cord (historical)34.9 miles8
Basque39.2 miles8

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 ArockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474096The 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 1117045. 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.