Evans, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wallowa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97857. The Survey maps it on the Evans quadrangle. It stands 3,297 feet above sea level.

Evans within Wallowa County

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.

1955 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Sled Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Wallowa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Evans quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Evans between 1994 and 2020, burning about 719 acres in total. 18 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	18
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
22 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	BOAT TRAILER
21 September 2012	Debris and open burning	27 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	PARSNIP CREEK
13 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	249 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	THATCH
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	LITTLE BEAR
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	ALLEN CANYON
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	VALLEY VIEW
29 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	62 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SCHOOL FLAT
28 August 1994	Natural	303 acres	Wallowa Unit	GREEN BASIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wallowa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Evans: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mp 55.4 Wallowa-Lake	Stone	Past Producer
Mp 55.4 Wallowa-Lake	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lostine	1.0 miles	10
Wallowa	7.3 miles	10
Enterprise	9.2 miles	10
Alder (historical)	9.8 miles	10
Joseph	14.4 miles	12
Minam	18.0 miles	10
Maxville	18.3 miles	11
Eustis (historical)	21.1 miles	11

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 Q112188994

The 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 1141923. 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.