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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.

Butte Falls within Jackson County

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

Population over time

11 figures

Butte 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.

YearPeople Change
1920166
1930298+132 (+80%)
1940339+41 (+14%)
1950372+33 (+10%)
1960384+12 (+3%)
1970358-26 (-7%)
1980428+70 (+20%)
1990252-176 (-41%)
2000438+186 (+74%)
2010423-15 (-3%)
2020443+20 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

181 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural65
Recreation and ceremony29
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictBOWEN CREEK
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictGINGER 3
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictGINGER 2
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictLICK CREEK
4 September 1992Naturalunder an acreMedford UnitPOWERS RANCH
30 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMedford UnitOBENCHAIN ROAD
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMedford UnitFISH LAKE RD MM19
3 September 1992Naturalunder an acreMedford UnitOBENCHAIN MTN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Call of the WildCopper, Manganese, Gold, SilverOccurrenceCopper, Cuprite, Malachite
Call of the WildCopper, Gold, Manganese, SilverProspect
Grand Cove ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2004Flash FloodButte 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 2010HailButte Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Edsalla (historical)3.8 miles18
Dudley (historical)6.1 miles19
Derby (historical)7.5 miles18
Lake Creek9.0 miles22
Brownsboro9.2 miles21
McLeod10.5 miles20
Cascade Gorge11.9 miles19
Mountain View (historical)12.6 miles24

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 FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2418192The 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.