Erwin, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Eagle Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97814. It stands on Houghton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sawtooth Ridge quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Erwin within Baker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1901 USGS Baker quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1901 USGS Baker City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Sawtooth Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Baker quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Erwin (historical) between 1994 and 2019, burning about 138 acres in total. 7 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1

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
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Vale District	HIGHWAY 86
9 August 1996	Fireworks	under an acre	Vale District	KEATING C
23 August 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	15 acres	Vale District	CREWS CRK
23 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Vale District	PHILCORN
14 August 2001	Natural	10 acres	Vale District	MIDDLE
14 August 2001	Natural	6.0 acres	Vale District	EAST
12 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Vale District	HIDDEN T
11 August 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Vale District	KEATING AREA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Erwin (historical): 16 past producers, 8 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Copper, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Burkemont	Copper, Silver	Occurrence	Bornite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Malachite, Silver
Burkemont Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver	Prospect	1894
Clover Creek Copper Mine	Copper, Gold, Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Barite, Chalcopyrite, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite
Copper Prospect	Copper, Gold	Occurrence
San Luis Claim	Antimony, Copper, Tungsten	Prospect
Sunset Group	Antimony, Gold	Occurrence	1895
Gold Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Keating Chalk Pit	Diatomite	Past Producer
Keating Diatomite	Diatomite	Producer	Sedimentary
Ruckles Creek	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Baker 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
Keating	1.3 miles	14
Encina	14.3 miles	17
Baker City	14.4 miles	15
Estes (historical)	14.6 miles	15
Pleasant Valley	14.8 miles	17
Sparta	15.0 miles	14
Wingville	17.1 miles	15
Haines	17.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1131966. 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.