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Deschutes, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Bend census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97701. It lies near Long Butte. The Survey maps it on the Tumalo quadrangle. It stands 3,284 feet above sea level.

Deschutes within Deschutes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Deschutes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 207 acres in total. 66 started naturally. 8 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
Natural66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony14
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Firearms and explosives use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
3 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBend Fire Department0831 RS
27 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePrineville District0836
17 September 2001Naturalunder an acreDeschutes National Forest1685
15 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreBend Fire Department0912 RS
14 September 2010Naturalunder an acrePrineville District723
11 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreBend Fire Department0897 BENN
11 September 1997Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictALFALFA
10 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePrineville District1145

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Deschutes County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Deschutes: 25 past producers, 18 producers, 1 unknown. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Gravel-Pumice PitSand and Gravel, Construction, PumicePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Long ButteStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wil-Ho Contruction CoStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Deschutes Concrete ProductsPumicePast Producer
Deschutes Concrete Products DepositPumiceUnknown
Deschutes Junction Pit #3PumiceProducer
Long Butte PitPumiceProducer
Oregon State Highway # 1PumicePast Producer

Every working recorded in Deschutes County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deschutes 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 2013HailDeschutes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deschutes 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
Tumalo4.0 miles16
Bend7.5 miles19
Cline Falls (historical)8.1 miles16
Redmond9.1 miles16
Deschutes River Woods12.6 miles17
Alfalfa13.8 miles15
Cloverdale14.0 miles17
Terrebonne14.2 miles16

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 Q112422738The 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 1637841. 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.