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Bly, Oregon

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Langell Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97622. It stands on Fishhole Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bly quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,360 feet above sea level.

Bly within Klamath County

On record in Bly

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

Population over time

10 figures

Bly grew from 100 to 207 between 1910 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
1910100
19201000 (0%)
1940600+500 (+500%)
1950800+200 (+33%)
1960600-200 (-25%)
1970500-100 (-17%)
1980750+250 (+50%)
19907500 (0%)
2000486-264 (-35%)
2020207-279 (-57%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Bly between 1992 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 3 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
Natural47
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictWHITMORE
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestDRY
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLake UnitNEWMAN
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLake UnitPINE CREST
23 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreLakeview DistrictDUMPSTER
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National Forestnot named
8 August 2000Natural1.8 acresLakeview DistrictHILL
7 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreLake UnitBAR (DIS 245)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klamath County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Bly: 15 past producers, 5 producers, 1 prospect. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, 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
Unnamed PumicePumiceProspect
Bly MillsiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bly PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bly PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Campbell PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Angle Butte Pit & PlantStonePast Producer
Angle Butte Pit & PlantStonePast Producer
BlyStonePast Producer
BlyStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Klamath County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bly in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 2 flood. 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
February 2025FloodBly$20,000The Sprague River near Beatty rose above minor flood stage of 8.5 ft. at 25/730 PST, peaked in minor flood stage at 26/145 PST at 9.13 ft. It then fell below flood stage at 26/1645 PST. This produced flooding of structures in the vicinity of the cities of Sprague River and Lone Pine, and widespread agricultural flooding.
February 2017FloodBly-The Sprague River near Beatty exceeded flood stage (8.5 feet) at 09/1945 PST. The river crested at 9.59 feet several times between 10/1415 and 10/1515 PST. The river fell below flood stage at 11/1715 PST.

Every storm recorded in Klamath 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
Beatty12.5 miles20
Haynesville20.7 miles19
Lorella21.7 miles19
Hot Springs23.4 miles18
Tule Lake (historical)23.5 miles18
Bonanza23.7 miles18
Hildebrand24.2 miles20
Yonna24.3 miles20

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 BlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3478051The 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 1138344. 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.