Butte Falls, Oregon
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Butte Falls-Prospect census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97522. It stands on Hukill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Butte Falls quadrangle. 443 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,536 feet above sea level.
On record in Butte Falls
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 6 records
Butte Falls Ranger Stationlisted 1986
Imnaha Guard Stationlisted 1986
Jacksonville-to-Fort Klamath Military Wagon Roadlisted 1979
Lodgepole Guard Stationlisted 1991
Parker Meadows Shelterlisted 2000
Willow Prairie Cabinlisted 2000
Population over time
11 figuresButte Falls grew from 166 to 443 between 1920 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 166 | |
| 1930 | 298 | +132 (+80%) |
| 1940 | 339 | +41 (+14%) |
| 1950 | 372 | +33 (+10%) |
| 1960 | 384 | +12 (+3%) |
| 1970 | 358 | -26 (-7%) |
| 1980 | 428 | +70 (+20%) |
| 1990 | 252 | -176 (-41%) |
| 2000 | 438 | +186 (+74%) |
| 2010 | 423 | -15 (-3%) |
| 2020 | 443 | +20 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1897 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Butte Falls quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Medford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Medford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Medford quadrangle1:250000
- 1988 USGS Butte Falls quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Crater Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Butte Falls quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
181 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Butte Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,441 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 65 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Medford District | BOWEN CREEK |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Medford District | GINGER 3 |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Medford District | GINGER 2 |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Medford District | LICK CREEK |
| 4 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Medford Unit | POWERS RANCH |
| 30 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Medford Unit | OBENCHAIN ROAD |
| 3 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Medford Unit | FISH LAKE RD MM19 |
| 3 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Medford Unit | OBENCHAIN MTN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Butte Falls: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Copper, Manganese, Gold, Silver, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Call of the Wild | Copper, Manganese, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | Copper, Cuprite, Malachite | |
| Call of the Wild | Copper, Gold, Manganese, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Grand Cove Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte Falls in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2010: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2004 | Flash Flood | Butte Falls | - | A spotter at Hwy 140 10 SE Butte Falls reported that Butte Creek had water running over the road and the creek rising rapidly. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Butte Falls | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edsalla (historical) | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Dudley (historical) | 6.1 miles | 19 | |
| Derby (historical) | 7.5 miles | 18 | |
| Lake Creek | 9.0 miles | 22 | |
| Brownsboro | 9.2 miles | 21 | |
| McLeod | 10.5 miles | 20 | |
| Cascade Gorge | 11.9 miles | 19 | |
| Mountain View (historical) | 12.6 miles | 24 |
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 Butte Falls | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2418192 | The 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 1139061. 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.









