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Cascade Locks, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cascade Locks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97014. It lies near Thunder Island. The Survey maps it on the Bonneville Dam quadrangle. 1,379 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 170 feet above sea level.

Cascade Locks within Hood River County

On record in Cascade Locks

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 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Cascade Locks grew from 1,115 to 1,379 between 2000 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
20001,115
20101,144+29 (+3%)
20201,379+235 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Cascade Locks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74,392 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning19
Smoking12
Fireworks12
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2

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 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFORT RAINS
8 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaTENAS CAMP
8 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaLOWER PUNCH BOWL
8 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestSMOKEY
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic Area2020
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEL REY
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaWYETH RANGE

Every fire recorded in Hood River County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Cascade Locks: 13 past producers, 8 producers, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal, Stone. 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
Bonneville DamStonePast Producer
StevensonAluminumOccurrence
StevensonPerliteOccurrence
Moffett's Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Rock Creke Hot SpringGeothermalProducer
Bonneville DamStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cascade Locks Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hamilton Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Island Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Keller PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hood River County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cascade Locks in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 1 wildfire, 1 heavy rain. 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
January 2007Heavy RainCascade Locks-A total accumulation of 2.22 inches was reported.
September 2003WildfireCascade Locks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hood River 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
Lost Lake Resort12.5 miles16
Dee15.1 miles15
Oak Grove16.0 miles17
Rockford17.8 miles17
Odell18.7 miles17
Parkdale18.7 miles16
Mount Hood19.4 miles16
Lenz19.6 miles17

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 Cascade LocksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1003672The 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 1139422. 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.