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Crescent, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Crescent Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97733. It stands on Crescent Butte. The Survey maps it on the Crescent quadrangle. 412 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,455 feet above sea level.

Crescent within Klamath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Crescent between 1992 and 2020, burning about 144 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning47
Natural36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism5
Other causes1

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 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersKEMP
6 September 2002Smokingunder an acreGilchrist Fire DepartmentTHEATRE #1
4 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGilchrist Fire DepartmentCHILD'S BOO BOO
30 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGilchrist Fire DepartmentCAT FIRE
26 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreDeschutes National Forest1428
24 September 1993Smokingunder an acreDeschutes National Forestnot named
21 September 2006Smokingunder an acreGilchrist Fire DepartmentCOIDC 972
18 September 2020Naturalunder an acreWalker Ranger Forest Protective Association0917 CR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klamath County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Crescent: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
Crescent ButtePumiceProducer
Black RockStonePast Producer
CliffStonePast Producer
Russell SiteStonePast Producer
Black Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cliff PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crescent ButteStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Russell SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Klamath County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crescent in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 3 hail. 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
August 2005HailCrescent$1,000Spotter KL73 reported .5 to .75 inch hail from a thunderstorm...but not too heavy where he was.
August 2005HailCrescent-The Crescent Ranger District reported large marble size hail between 1730 and 1800 PDT
July 1997HailCrescent-REPORTED BY FOREST SERVICE PERSONNEL

Every storm recorded in Klamath 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
Gilchrist1.2 miles16
Crescent Lake13.1 miles17
Odell Lake15.5 miles17
Chemult17.6 miles16
Kirk49.8 miles20
Fort Klamath54.7 miles20
Klamath Agency59.6 miles20
Chiloquin61.7 miles20

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 CrescentAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5184314The 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 1140426. 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.