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Cove, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Cove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97824. It stands on Bobington Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cove quadrangle. 620 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,870 feet above sea level.

Cove within Union County

On record in Cove

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Cove grew from 594 to 620 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000594
2010552-42 (-7%)
2020620+68 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Cove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 441 acres in total. 22 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
Natural22
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
25 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLaGrande DistrictDEER ROAD
10 September 1997Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictHIGH VALLEY
6 August 2009Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestFANNY
6 August 1999Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictORCHARD
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestEVEREST
4 August 1994Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National Forestnot named
30 August 2007Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictSTUMP
30 August 2007Natural170 acresWallowa-Whitman National ForestBRIDGE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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 Cove: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal. 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
Cove SpringsGeothermalProducer
Hay Creek Rock ProductionStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hay Creek Rock ProductionSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mp 14.5 Cove HwySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mp 14.5 Cove HwySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cove in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCove$5,000Winds from a dry microburst downed tree limbs up to 5 inches thick. A tree fell on a power line, causing a brief power outage. Blowing dust at one point reduced visibilities to just 50 feet.
May 2000LightningCove$3,000A power pole fire resulting from lightning knocked out power to around 500 residents. Power was restored by mid-afternoon.
May 2018Heavy RainCove-A thunderstorm produced heavy rain in and around Cove, in Union county. One half inch to one inch of rain fell on this area over approximately a one and half hour period.
July 2012HailCove-Hail accompanied by heavy rainfall.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCove-Thunderstorm winds broke tree limbs 6 inches in diameter across power lines.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCove-Tree limbs 4 inches in diameter fell due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2013HailCove-no account filed
July 2012HailCove-no account filed
June 2010HailCove-no account filed
June 2010FloodCove-no account filed
May 2000HailCove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Union6.8 miles12
Hot Lake8.7 miles12
Alicel11.8 miles13
Island City12.9 miles10
Telocaset13.5 miles13
Imbler13.9 miles13
La Grande15.0 miles10
Indian Valley (historical)15.8 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.

Wikipedia article on CoveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2593095The 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 1136181. 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.