Emigrant Springs, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Wasco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97065. The Survey maps it on the Klondike quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Emigrant Springs within Sherman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Wasco quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1971 USGS Klondike quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Goldendale quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Emigrant Springs (historical) between 1994 and 2008, burning about 16,787 acres in total. 2 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
Natural	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 July 2008	Natural	9,787 acres	Prineville District	0284 I284
24 July 1994	Natural	7,000 acres	Prineville District	NARROWS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sherman 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sinks (historical)	2.7 miles	9
Klondike	3.9 miles	9
Early (historical)	4.9 miles	10
Wasco	7.5 miles	11
McDonald	8.4 miles	12
De Moss Springs	10.0 miles	11
Monkland	10.0 miles	8
Rufus	10.5 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1120501. 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.