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Bates, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Prairie City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97817. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bates quadrangle. It stands 4,062 feet above sea level.

Bates within Grant County

On record in Bates

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

6 surveys from 12 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

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Bates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 174 acres in total. 160 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
Natural160
Recreation and ceremony25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1

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
7 September 1994Naturalunder an acreMalheur National Forestnot named
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreMalheur National Forest13446
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreMalheur National Forest13403
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 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Bates: 8 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 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
Middle Fork PlacersGold, SilverPast Producer
Middle Fork PlacersGold, SilverPast Producer
Placer Gulch SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Diatomite OccurrenceDiatomiteOccurrenceSedimentary
Unnamed Diatomite OccurrenceDiatomiteOccurrence
AustinStonePast Producer
Austin/Dixie SummitStonePast Producer
TiptonStonePast Producer
Austin PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Austin/Dixie SummitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Austin0.9 miles14
Robinsonville8.4 miles14
Prairie City13.9 miles14
Porterville (historical)15.2 miles14
Granite15.7 miles14
Susanville16.8 miles12
Galena18.2 miles12
Cabell City22.1 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 BatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4868782The 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 1137574. 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.