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Black Butte Ranch, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sisters-Millican census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97759. The Survey maps it on the Black Butte quadrangle. 260 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,350 feet above sea level.

Black Butte Ranch within Deschutes County

Population over time

2 figures

Black Butte Ranch fell from 366 to 260 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010366
2020260-106 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Black Butte Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 848 acres in total. 75 started naturally. 8 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
Natural75
Recreation and ceremony66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Smoking17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2011Naturalunder an acreDeschutes National Forest747
6 September 2016Other causesunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0572 CS
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0690
4 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0874
27 September 1996Smokingunder an acreDeschutes National Forest1698
26 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0921
22 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest1213
21 September 2005Smokingunder an acreDeschutes National Forest849

Every fire recorded in Deschutes County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Black Butte Ranch: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice. 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
Zimmerman ButteStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zimmerman Butte PitPumiceProducer
Black ButteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black Butte Gravel SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black Butte PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Black Buttte Gravel SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Deschutes 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
Sisters8.1 miles15
Cloverdale12.2 miles17
Lower Bridge (historical)19.1 miles16
Cline Falls (historical)22.1 miles16
Tumalo23.2 miles16
Terrebonne25.3 miles16
Deschutes26.0 miles16
Redmond26.4 miles16

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 Black Butte RanchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4920461The 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 1138180. 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.