BlockChico, Oregon
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Imnaha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97828. It stands on Sumac Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roberts Butte quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1955 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Elk Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Wallowa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Roberts Butte quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
70 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Chico (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 61 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 | 61 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | CROW CREEK |
| 27 September 1992 | Natural | 5.5 acres | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | not named |
| 25 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | STARVATION |
| 24 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | not named |
| 2 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | not named |
| 15 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | TYPE 4 |
| 10 September 1997 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Wallowa Unit | ROMAINE GULCH |
| 1 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | CHRISTMAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1129495. 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.