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Elk Lake, Oregon

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sisters-Millican census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97703. It lies near Moolack Butte. The Survey maps it on the Elk Lake quadrangle. It stands 4,895 feet above sea level.

Elk Lake within Deschutes County

On record in Elk Lake

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Elk Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 451 acres in total. 125 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
Natural125
Recreation and ceremony38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2

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
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0864 NW
7 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0794
6 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0852 NW
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0872 NW
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestINCIDENT 390
5 September 1998Naturalunder an acreDeschutes National Forest1269
4 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest1528
30 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest1018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Deschutes County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Elk Lake: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Winslow Claim No 1 and 2StonePast Producer
Winslow Claim Nos. 1 and 2StoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Deschutes County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elk Lake in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 dust devil. 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 2011Dust DevilElk Lake-The dust devil moved over the lake and turned over 2 boats with passengers.
July 1997HailElk Lake-Hail up to one inch damaged some recreational vehicles around Crane Prairie Reservoir. The hail put holes in some awnings and broke a few skylights out.

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
Sunriver20.6 miles14
Three Rivers21.0 miles15
Deschutes River Woods23.7 miles17
Sisters25.3 miles15
Bend26.5 miles19
La Pine26.8 miles16
Tumalo27.7 miles16
Cloverdale28.4 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 Q112422371The 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 1141780. 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.