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Dant, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dufur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97037. It stands on Eagle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dant quadrangle. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Dant within Wasco County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Dant between 1992 and 2019, burning about 67,718 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
4 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePrineville DistrictACCESS RD
4 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePrineville DistrictPIPELINE
26 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestRIPPLEBROOK
21 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresPrineville District0974 LOCKED GATE
15 September 2001Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictABC MISC
4 August 1999Naturalunder an acreWarm Springs AgencyNE MUTTON
24 August 2011Natural51,384 acresPrineville District0655 RAZOR BACK EAST
20 August 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acrePrineville District0522

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wasco County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Dant: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Perlite, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Axford HuntPerliteOccurrence
Axford-Hunt Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence
Lady FrancisPerlitePast Producer
Lady Francis MinePerlitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Wasco County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dant in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 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 2013HailDant-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wasco 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
Criterion (historical)6.1 miles8
Wapinitia9.2 miles13
East Maupin9.5 miles14
Maupin9.6 miles14
Simnasho13.3 miles11
Pine Grove14.1 miles13
Tygh Valley14.8 miles14
Bakeoven14.9 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q19461269The 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 1637839. 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.