Camp Sherman, Oregon
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Grandview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97730. It stands on North Fork Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Black Butte quadrangle. 251 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,963 feet above sea level.
On record in Camp Sherman
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 1 record
Camp Sherman Community Halllisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresCamp Sherman grew from 233 to 251 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 233 | |
| 2020 | 251 | +18 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1929 USGS Three Sisters quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1932 USGS Three Sisters quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sisters quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Black Butte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
168 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Camp Sherman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,980 acres in total. 62 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 62 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | not named |
| 6 September 2016 | Other causes | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | 0572 CS |
| 5 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | 1477 |
| 4 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | 0986 |
| 30 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | 1016 CS |
| 3 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | 709 |
| 29 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | 1069 |
| 25 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | 1620 |
Storms near this place
4 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp Sherman in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2003: 2 wildfire, 1 lightning, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Wildfire | Camp Sherman | - | The Booth and Bear Butte Fires burned a total of 91,000 acres. The cause of the fire was determined to be prior lightning strikes which created some hot spots that later flared up into a wildfire. Dry conditions and occasionally higher winds contributed to the growth of the fire. Hundreds of residents were evacuated from Camp Sherman. Eight camp cabins were destroyed at the Round Lake Christian Camp. In addition, three other outbuildings were also destroyed. More than 2,000 personal were involved in the Booth and Bear Butte Fires. The cost of fighting the fire totaled more than 32 million dollars. The property damage from this event is unknown. |
| September 2003 | Wildfire | Camp Sherman | - | The Booth and Bear Butte Fires began on August 19th and burned a total of 91,000 acres. The cause of the fire was determined to be prior lightning strikes which created hot spots that later flared up into a wildfire. Dry conditions and occasionally higher winds contributed to the growth of the fire. Hundreds of residents were evacuated from Camp Sherman. Eight camp cabins were destroyed at the Round Lake Christian Camp. In addition, three other outbuildings were also destroyed. More than 2,000 personnel were involved in the Booth and Bear Butte Fires. The cost of fighting the fire totaled more than 32 million dollars. The property damage from this event is unknown. |
| July 2001 | Lightning | Camp Sherman | - | Lightning started a 6 day fire that burned 1800 acres northwest of Camp Sherman. This fire, named the Bald Peter Fire, threatened trout habitat in the Metolius River and cost 1.2 million dollars to control. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Camp Sherman | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva | 13.3 miles | 16 | |
| Grandview | 16.8 miles | 16 | |
| Crooked River Ranch | 21.5 miles | 17 | |
| Opal City | 22.7 miles | 17 | |
| Culver | 23.1 miles | 13 | |
| Metolius | 26.0 miles | 13 | |
| Warm Springs | 28.8 miles | 11 | |
| Madras | 29.6 miles | 14 |
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 Camp Sherman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3459574 | 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 1139266. 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.
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.







