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Diamond, Oregon

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Diamond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97722. The Survey maps it on the Diamond quadrangle. It stands 4,219 feet above sea level.

Diamond within Harney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Diamond between 1994 and 2019, burning about 4,900 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreBurns DistrictRADIO #1
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreBurns DistrictRADIO #2
14 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBurns DistrictDIAMONDDUM
13 September 2001Natural1.5 acresBurns District2494
11 September 1997Naturalunder an acreBurns DistrictDIAMOND C
30 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresBurns DistrictNORMAN
23 August 1999Natural2.0 acresBurns DistrictN DIAMOND
13 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBurns DistrictDIAMOND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harney County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diamond in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2015: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2015HailDiamond-A spotter reported 1 inch hail along with strong winds. Tree branches to 1.5 inches were broken off.
July 2014HailDiamond-A Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail and 30 MPH winds.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDiamond-Antelope RAWS
June 2006HailDiamond-no account filed

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
Princeton (historical)16.8 miles8
Frenchglen18.4 miles10
Voltage18.7 miles8
New Princeton19.2 miles9
Narrows24.2 miles8
Crane28.2 miles9
Venator30.0 miles8
Lawen30.6 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.

Wikipedia article on DiamondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5270710The 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 1136216. 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.

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.