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Crane, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Drewsey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97732. It stands on Crane Butte. The Survey maps it on the Crane quadrangle. 116 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,134 feet above sea level.

Crane within Harney County

Population over time

2 figures

Crane fell from 129 to 116 between 2010 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
2010129
2020116-13 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Crane between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,782 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
22 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined129 acresBurns District9273
14 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresCentral Oregon Rangeland Protection AssociationPIGTAIL
3 August 1994Natural309 acresBurns DistrictGORMAN CRK
10 August 1997Natural3.0 acresBurns DistrictWINDY PT
31 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution14 acresBurns DistrictWINDY POINT
20 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined69 acresBurns DistrictCRANE CRK
19 July 1994Power generation/transmission/distribution129 acresBurns DistrictCRANE BT
15 June 1993Debris and open burning1.5 acresBurns DistrictCOUNTY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harney County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Crane: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice, Stone, 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
Crane Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Crane RockStonePast Producer
Mp 24.6 Steens Hwy.PumiceProducer
Mp 26.9 Steens HighwayPumiceProducer
Crane RockStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mp24.6 Steens HwyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mp26.9 Steens HwyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Harney County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crane in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2010Thunderstorm WindCrane$200,000Harney County Sheriff Department reported 52 broken or downed power poles along state highway 78, damaged roofs, several outbuildings partially destroyed, and a mobile home blown 3 feet off the foundation.
June 2023Funnel CloudCrane-A member of the public submitted a photo of a funnel cloud near Crane, OR.
July 1997Flash FloodCrane-A thunderstorm with heavy rain produced flash flooding near Crane, Oregon. A spotter reported 1.8 inches of rain fell in 35 minutes, causing dry creek beds to flow with 2 1/2 feet of water. No damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Harney 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
New Princeton9.1 miles9
Princeton (historical)11.6 miles8
Lawen12.0 miles8
Venator15.2 miles8
Buchanan15.9 miles9
Voltage16.1 miles8
Dunnean16.8 miles8
Harney20.4 miles11

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 CraneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459550The 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 1119506. 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.