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Austin, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Prairie City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97817. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Austin quadrangle. It stands 4,114 feet above sea level.

Austin within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

212 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Austin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 191 acres in total. 169 started naturally. 4 were 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
Natural169
Recreation and ceremony26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4

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 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMalheur National ForestOR-MAF-2012-12276
7 September 2007Natural1.0 acresMalheur National ForestOR-MAF-327
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreMalheur National Forest13446
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreMalheur National Forest13403
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestZEUS
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreMalheur National ForestOR-MAF-316
3 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMalheur National ForestOR-MAF-12269
3 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMalheur National ForestOR-MAF-12272

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Austin: 10 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Diatomite. 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
Listen Lake MineGold, CopperPast ProducerVein
Middle Fork PlacersGold, SilverPast Producer
Placer Gulch SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Diatomite OccurrenceDiatomiteOccurrenceSedimentary
Gray EagleGold, SilverProspect
Middle Fork PlacersGold, SilverPast Producer
Unnamed Diatomite OccurrenceDiatomiteOccurrence
AustinStonePast Producer
Austin/Dixie SummitStonePast Producer
TiptonStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Austin in 1 storm report in 2004: 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
August 2004HailAustin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Bates0.9 miles12
Robinsonville7.7 miles14
Porterville (historical)14.4 miles14
Prairie City14.8 miles14
Granite14.9 miles14
Susanville17.0 miles12
Galena18.5 miles12
Cabell City21.3 miles13

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 AustinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474176The 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 1137344. 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.