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Cold Springs Junction, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hermiston-Umatilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97838. It stands on Cold Springs Wash. The Survey maps it on the Hat Rock quadrangle. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Cold Springs Junction within Umatilla County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Cold Springs Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,359 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
12 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresCold Springs National Wildlife RefugeEASTCOLDSP
8 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMcNary National Wildlife RefugeSANDSTATIO
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresCold Springs National Wildlife RefugeCOLD SPRINGS
4 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresCold Springs National Wildlife RefugeCSRAILROAD
27 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresCold Springs National Wildlife RefugeRAILROAD1
23 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined248 acresMcNary National Wildlife RefugeSAND STATION
22 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresMcNary National Wildlife RefugeSTATELINE
19 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresVale DistrictHAT ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Cold Springs Junction: 14 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Silica. 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
Sand Station DepositSilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hat RockStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Diagonal QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hat Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Diagonal QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Umatilla 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
Cold Springs2.8 miles14
McNary8.0 miles15
Charlestown8.6 miles15
Power City8.8 miles15
Hermiston9.5 miles15
Stanfield10.1 miles13
Umatilla10.8 miles15
Holdman11.3 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122551860The 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 1119123. 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.