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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.

Camp Sherman within Jefferson County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Camp 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.

YearPeople Change
2010233
2020251+18 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

168 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural62
Recreation and ceremony46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 1993Smokingunder an acreDeschutes National Forestnot named
6 September 2016Other causesunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0572 CS
5 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest1477
4 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0986
30 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest1016 CS
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDeschutes National Forest709
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDeschutes National Forest1069
25 September 1999Smokingunder an acreDeschutes National Forest1620

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003WildfireCamp 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 2003WildfireCamp 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 2001LightningCamp 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 2002HailCamp Sherman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Geneva13.3 miles16
Grandview16.8 miles16
Crooked River Ranch21.5 miles17
Opal City22.7 miles17
Culver23.1 miles13
Metolius26.0 miles13
Warm Springs28.8 miles11
Madras29.6 miles14

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 ShermanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459574The 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.