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Diamond Lake, Oregon

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the North Umpqua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97731. It stands on Two Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Diamond Lake quadrangle. It stands 5,292 feet above sea level.

Diamond Lake within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Diamond Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,003 acres in total. 89 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
Natural89
Recreation and ceremony35
Smoking8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2020Natural9,975 acresUmpqua National ForestTHIELSEN
8 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmpqua National ForestTHIELSEN
6 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmpqua National ForestTICKET
6 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmpqua National ForestCORRAL
6 September 2003Naturalunder an acreUmpqua National ForestCINNAMON BUTTE
30 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmpqua National ForestLAKE
3 September 2014Naturalunder an acreUmpqua National ForestDAILY
3 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmpqua National ForestCONNECTOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diamond Lake in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2020HailDiamond Lake-Hail with a diameter of 1.0 inches was reported at 350 Resort Drive at Diamond Lake.
July 2010HailDiamond Lake-Quarter size hail was reported at Diamond Lake Resort.
August 2004HailDiamond Lake-A park/forest ranger 10 miles southwest of Diamond Lake reported 3/4 inch hail with 2 inches of hail on the ground.
July 1999Flash FloodDiamond Lake-WSR-88D estimated a storm total precipitation maximum of 4.1 inches over Mt. Bailey...5 NM west of Diamond Lake.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Clearwater16.1 miles14
Toketee Falls17.8 miles14
Steamboat33.7 miles12
North Umpqua Village43.9 miles11
Drew45.2 miles21
Tiller46.4 miles21
Hoaglin (historical)47.3 miles17
Peel47.7 miles17

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 Q114051794The 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 1141001. 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.