Boyd, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dufur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97021. It lies near Starveout. The Survey maps it on the Dufur East quadrangle.

Boyd within Wasco County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1930 USGS Dufur quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1934 USGS Dufur quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Dufur East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Mount Hood quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Boyd between 1999 and 2018, burning about 33,451 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	PLEASANT RIDGE #2
28 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	LARCH MOUNTAIN II
21 August 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	LARCH
26 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	33,451 acres	Prineville District	LONG HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wasco County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Boyd: 6 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
May	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
May Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Barnett	Stone	Past Producer
Barnett Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Oades	Stone	Past Producer
Oades	Stone	Past Producer
Oades It	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Oades Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Underhill	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wasco 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dufur	3.6 miles	13
Endersby	3.7 miles	13
Nansene	6.0 miles	12
Emerson	6.7 miles	10
English (historical)	7.9 miles	15
Petersburg	8.4 miles	15
The Dalles	8.9 miles	17
Fairbanks	10.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1118022. 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.