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Brogan, Oregon

9 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 97903. It stands on Black Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brogan quadrangle. 97 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,615 feet above sea level.

Brogan within Malheur County

Population over time

2 figures

Brogan grew from 90 to 97 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
201090
202097+7 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Brogan between 1992 and 2016, burning about 11,174 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreVale DistrictMOTHOM
9 August 2006Natural3.0 acresVale DistrictGUM CREEK
7 August 2016Natural1.9 acresVale DistrictPEDRO 2
7 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresVale DistrictVALE RFPA 3
31 August 2007Natural4.2 acresVale DistrictBLACK CREEK
31 August 2007Natural3.0 acresVale DistrictHIGHLINE
29 August 2013Natural115 acresVale DistrictGUM CREEK
23 August 1997Natural15 acresVale DistrictLICK CR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Malheur County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Brogan: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Jamieson Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Vilsmeyer QuarryStonePast Producer
Vilsmeyer QurryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brogan Canyon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brogan Canyon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brogan LimestoneLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Brogan LimestoneLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Malheur County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brogan in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 heavy rain. 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
July 1996Heavy RainBrogan-no account filed

Every storm 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
Dell (historical)5.1 miles11
Jamieson6.1 miles11
Willowcreek12.2 miles12
Cake (historical)12.4 miles10
Humboldt Basin (historical)13.2 miles10
Dennis14.8 miles12
Warm Springs (historical)15.7 miles11
Malheur City (historical)15.9 miles10

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 BroganAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3461527The 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 1118095. 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.