China Town, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97819. It lies near August Meyer Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Bridgeport quadrangle.

China Town within Baker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1955 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1980 USGS Brogan quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Bridgeport quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of China Town between 1992 and 2018, burning about 49,190 acres in total. 24 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	24
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2006	Natural	3.0 acres	Baker Unit	LAUGHING HORSE
9 August 2005	Natural	65 acres	Vale District	BOW STAFF
7 August 2008	Natural	5.0 acres	Baker Unit	BRIDGEPORT
6 August 2016	Natural	12 acres	Vale District	CHINA
6 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Baker Unit	JUNIPER HILL SPRINGS #2
6 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Baker Unit	JUNIPER HILL SPRING #1
6 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Vale District	RIDGE TOP
24 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	77 ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 70 workings within 5 miles of China Town: 26 past producers, 20 occurrences, 12 unknowns, 9 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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	Recorded
Buttercup Mines, Inc.	Gold, Quartz, Asbestos	Past Producer
Juniper Hill Prospect	Gold, Talc-Soapstone	Past Producer	Vein
Lloyd Mccullough	Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	1946
Unnamed Hot Spring	Geothermal	Producer
Unnamed Prospect	Tungsten	Unknown
Burnt River Placers	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Placer
Dean Prospect	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Johnson Gulch Placer	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Placer
Clark Creek	Mercury	Occurrence
Clark Creek Prospect	Mercury	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Baker 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
Clarksville	1.0 miles	10
Bridgeport	2.5 miles	10
Rye Valley	11.9 miles	11
Pleasant Valley	13.0 miles	17
Encina	13.7 miles	17
Durkee	13.9 miles	14
Weatherby	17.4 miles	11
Hereford	17.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1161313. 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.