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Enterprise, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97828. It stands on Little Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Enterprise quadrangle. 2,052 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,757 feet above sea level.

Enterprise within Wallowa County

On record in Enterprise

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 11 records

Population over time

3 figures

Enterprise grew from 1,895 to 2,052 between 2000 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
20001,895
20101,940+45 (+2%)
20202,052+112 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Enterprise between 1992 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning12
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGWYNN
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresWallowa UnitANT
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCENTURY LANE
5 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWallowa UnitSUNRISE ROAD
4 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersANT FLAT
24 August 2016Smokingunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersALDER
17 August 2019Smokingunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHURRICANE
9 July 2012Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersEGGLESN ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wallowa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Enterprise: 20 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Joseph Airport PitStonePast Producer
Joseph Airport PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mp 38.9 Hwy 11StonePast Producer
Mp 38.9 Hwy 11Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mp 62 Wallowa-LakeStonePast Producer
Mp 62 Wallowa-LkeStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oregon State Pit 32-16-5StonePast Producer
Oregon State Pit 32-16-5StonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Wallowa County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enterprise in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2009: 4 hail, 3 lightning, 2 funnel cloud, 2 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 2001LightningEnterprise$40,000Lightning struck a 75 foot radio antenna and short-circuited many electronic devices such as faxes, computers and phones, which were located next to the tower. One business owner estimated total losses of over 25 thousand dollars. Other lightning strikes cut power to 800 customers in the nearby towns of Wallowa Lake and Joseph.
August 2009HailEnterprise-Spotter reported the ground was white with hail and small branches were knocked down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindEnterprise-Large tree blocking the road to Freezeout Trail.
August 2006Tornado (F0)Enterprise-Brief landspout tornado observed moving north by several golfers at Alpine Meadows Golf Course northwest of Enterprise. Tornado hit trees and broke off branches up to 2 inches in diameter.
August 2001LightningEnterprise-Lightning struck a tree southeast of Enterprise, knocking it into a power line. Power was then lost for around 5 hours to sections of Enterprise, Joseph, and Wallowa Lake.
May 2004Funnel CloudEnterprise-no account filed
September 2004Thunderstorm WindEnterprise-no account filed
September 2004HailEnterprise-no account filed
May 2003Funnel CloudEnterprise-no account filed
July 2002HailEnterprise-no account filed
August 2002HailEnterprise-no account filed
August 2000LightningEnterprise-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wallowa 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
Alder (historical)2.2 miles10
Joseph5.6 miles12
Lostine9.0 miles10
Evans9.2 miles11
Armin (historical)16.5 miles11
Wallowa16.5 miles10
Lewis20.7 miles12
Zumwalt21.6 miles10

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 EnterpriseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q533374The 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 1141885. 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.