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Beulah, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Brogan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97911. The Survey maps it on the Beulah quadrangle. It stands 3,284 feet above sea level.

Beulah within Malheur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Beulah between 1998 and 2016, burning about 298 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Other causes1

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
16 September 2001Natural54 acresVale DistrictBEULAH
16 September 2001Natural5.0 acresVale DistrictBEDROCK
6 August 1998Natural172 acresVale DistrictBEULAH B
7 July 2002Natural50 acresBurns DistrictEAGLEPITCH
31 July 2004Natural2.0 acresVale DistrictMALHEUR
25 June 2010Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictWARM SPRINGS
12 June 2016Other causes15 acresVale DistrictBENDIRE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Malheur 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 Beulah: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Diatomite, 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
Beulah Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Celatom MineDiatomitePast Producer
Celatom MineDiatomiteProducer
Diatomite PitDiatomitePast Producer
Kelly FieldDiatomiteOccurrence
Kelly FieldDiatomiteProducer
State Section 36DiatomitePast Producer
State Section 36 PitDiatomiteProducer
Unnamed SiteDiatomiteProducer

Every working 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
Juntura11.8 miles8
Bohna (historical)19.4 miles9
Clover (historical)21.5 miles9
Westfall24.2 miles8
Riverside25.2 miles8
Caviness (historical)28.7 miles9
Harper28.9 miles8
Creston29.0 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 BeulahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4899248The 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 1136064. 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.