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Cabell City, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Prairie City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97877. It lies near Cabell Meadow. The Survey maps it on the Crawfish Lake quadrangle. It stands 5,780 feet above sea level.

Cabell City within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Cabell City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,042 acres in total. 106 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
Natural106
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 1998Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestSOUTH TRAIL CREEK
6 September 2011Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestTRAIL CREEK
6 September 2011Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestHALFWAY
6 September 2006Natural7.2 acresWallowa-Whitman National ForestBUBBLING SPRINGS
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestCRANE CREEK
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestBUBBLES
5 September 2011Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestNORTH TRAIL
5 September 2011Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestDAVIS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 113 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 113 workings within 5 miles of Cabell City: 37 occurrences, 36 past producers, 27 prospects, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Arsenic. 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
Buffalo MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Lead, ZincPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Buffalo MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
California MineZinc, Gold, Silver, Arsenic, Lead, CopperProducer1873
California MineGold, Arsenic, Copper, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Cap Martin MineGold, Silver, Zinc, LeadOccurrenceVein
Cap Martin MineGold, Zinc, Silver, LeadProspect
ContinentalGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, ArsenicProducerVein
Continental MineGold, Arsenic, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Crown Point MineGold, Silver, ArsenicProspectVein
Elk HeavenGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ArsenicPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Granite6.5 miles14
Porterville (historical)7.0 miles14
Robinsonville14.0 miles14
Austin21.3 miles14
Bates22.1 miles12
Susanville25.4 miles12
Galena27.0 miles12
Dale31.4 miles13

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 Cabell CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38249505The 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 1139098. 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.