Courtrock, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Long Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97864. It stands on Cougar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton quadrangle. It stands 3,810 feet above sea level.

Courtrock within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1951 USGS Courtrock quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Monument quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Courtrock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 297 acres in total. 54 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	54
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
4 September 2003	Natural	1.5 acres	John Day Unit	DONALDSON CREEK
4 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	John Day Unit	WILLOW CREEK
3 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	PETRE MEADOWS
2 September 2006	Natural	7.6 acres	John Day Unit	GRIZZLY FLATS
1 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	OR-MAF-181
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	WILLOW SPRING
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	WILLOW SPRING III
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	SAGEBRUSH SPRING

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 Courtrock: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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
Hamilton	7.6 miles	12
Beech Creek	11.7 miles	13
Fox	11.9 miles	13
Monument	12.6 miles	12
Dayville	14.9 miles	15
Long Creek	14.9 miles	13
Kimberly	16.8 miles	11
Caverhill (historical)	18.8 miles	13

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 Courtrock	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38249517	The 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 1159372. 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.