BlockCrowley, Oregon
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Juntura census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97906. It stands on Little Crowley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crowley quadrangle. It stands 4,078 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Crowley quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Mahogany Mountain quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Crowley between 2002 and 2017, burning about 19,847 acres in total. 6 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 | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2017 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Vale District | DRY LAKE |
| 4 August 2002 | Natural | 104 acres | Vale District | BURNT FLAT |
| 19 August 2003 | Natural | 192 acres | Vale District | STAR MTN |
| 24 July 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Vale District | TEX MARTIN LAKE |
| 10 June 2013 | Natural | 6,614 acres | Vale District | STOCKADE |
| 10 June 2013 | Natural | 12,935 acres | Vale District | CROWLEY CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creston | 15.7 miles | 8 | |
| Cord (historical) | 16.7 miles | 8 | |
| Riverside | 22.2 miles | 8 | |
| Watson (historical) | 23.5 miles | 8 | |
| Arock | 32.6 miles | 9 | |
| Juntura | 32.8 miles | 8 | |
| Bohna (historical) | 33.9 miles | 9 | |
| Rome | 34.3 miles | 9 |
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 Crowley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5189261 | 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 1119587. 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.