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Echo, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hermiston-Umatilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97826. It lies near Alkali Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Echo quadrangle. 632 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Echo within Umatilla County

On record in Echo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 10 records

Population over time

12 figures

Echo grew from 400 to 632 between 1910 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
1910400
1920501+101 (+25%)
1930311-190 (-38%)
1940280-31 (-10%)
1950457+177 (+63%)
1960456-1 (-0%)
1970479+23 (+5%)
1980624+145 (+30%)
1990499-125 (-20%)
2000650+151 (+30%)
2010699+49 (+8%)
2020632-67 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

What the histories say of this town

1,082 words

1 chapter about Echo from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and Garfield CountHistoric Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and Garfield Counties, Washington Territory, and Umatilla County, Oregon (1882)1,082 words

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 Echo: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ransier PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ransier PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Echo in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 2 funnel cloud, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 wildfire. 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
October 2003WildfireEcho$40,000High winds in the Echo area contributed to a wildfire which ignited a haystack, consisting of 2,000 tons of alfalfa. Two flatbed truck trailers were also destroyed by the flames. The fire was caused by a controlled burn earlier in the day next to an irrigation ditch. The property damage from this event is estimated at $40,000.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEcho-Outflow from thunderstorms downed several large limbs in Echo.
April 2010Funnel CloudEcho-Funnel cloud observed near Echo.
May 2004Funnel CloudEcho-A funnel cloud was spotted near the Interstate 84 and Highway 207 interchange.
May 2020HailEcho-no account filed
July 2012HailEcho-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindEcho-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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
Stanfield2.9 miles13
Nolin6.5 miles11
Hinkle7.2 miles15
Bucks Corners7.6 miles15
Hermiston8.4 miles15
Cold Springs9.5 miles14
Charlestown11.5 miles15
Cold Springs Junction12.2 miles14

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 EchoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2317450The 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 1120378. 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.

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.