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Cloverdale, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Tumalo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97759. The Survey maps it on the Henkle Butte quadrangle. It stands 3,084 feet above sea level.

Cloverdale within Deschutes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Cloverdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,298 acres in total. 130 started naturally. 4 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
Natural130
Debris and open burning46
Recreation and ceremony37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking16
Other causes7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks3

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 2017Naturalunder an acrePrineville District1141
9 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSisters UnitROASTED SQUIRREL #2
8 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0885
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCOIDC 0884
7 September 2002Smokingunder an acreSisters UnitLAKE DRIVE
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSisters UnitTROUT
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acrePrineville District0890
5 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCLOVERDALE RD 1095

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Deschutes County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cloverdale: 5 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice. 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
Cyrus FarmsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cyrus Farms PitPumiceProducer
ArpkeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arpke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
FryrearSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fryrear PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sisters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sisters PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Deschutes County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloverdale in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2023HailCloverdale-Via a public report, 1.5 inch hailstones fell 6 miles SE of Sisters at 1857 PDT, with the public report explaining damage had occurred to a vehicle. Via a public report from social media, hail stones up to 1 inch in size fell 5 miles ESE of Sisters at 1900 PDT.
August 2018HailCloverdale-A thunderstorm produced hail up to 1 inch in diameter at the Cloverdale Fire Station, 5 miles SE of Sisters in Deschutes county. Heavy rain also caused flooding of the parking lot associated with the station.
May 2017HailCloverdale-Measured 2.00 inch hail occurred 3 miles E of Sisters in Deschutes county. Report was from a public post on television station KTVZ Facebook page.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindCloverdale-Six miles southeast of the town of Sisters, OR spotter reported winds between 60 and 70 mph.

Every storm recorded in Deschutes 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
Sisters5.1 miles15
Lower Bridge (historical)9.7 miles16
Cline Falls (historical)10.3 miles16
Tumalo11.7 miles16
Black Butte Ranch12.2 miles16
Deschutes14.0 miles16
Redmond14.8 miles16
Terrebonne15.2 miles16

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 CloverdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5135924The 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 1139855. 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.