Caverhill, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Long Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97856. The Survey maps it on the Flowers Gulch quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Caverhill within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1950 USGS Ritter quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1952 USGS Ritter quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Monument quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Flowers Gulch quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Flowers Gulch quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Caverhill (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,134 acres in total. 18 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
Natural	18
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
3 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	HOT SPRINGS
21 September 2020	Natural	676 acres	John Day Unit	RITTER
20 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	ARCH
6 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	TWELVE MILE
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	RITTER BUTTE LOOKOUT
3 August 1994	Natural	75 acres	John Day Unit	BULLOCK GULCH
27 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	John Day Unit	FLOWERS GULCH
27 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	225 acres	John Day Unit	RITTER GRADE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Caverhill (historical): 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Walton Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Walton Pit	Stone	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ritter	5.7 miles	13
Long Creek	7.2 miles	13
Range	8.6 miles	13
Fox	11.9 miles	13
Hamilton	12.4 miles	12
Beech Creek	14.0 miles	13
Dale	14.2 miles	13
Galena	16.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1153788. 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.