BlockFerndale, Oregon
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Milton-Freewater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97862. It stands on East Crockett Branch. The Survey maps it on the Milton-Freewater quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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 Pendleton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Milton-Freewater quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ferndale between 2006 and 2011, burning under an acre in total. 1 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 | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | MANN |
| 5 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | INC 858 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 30 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Ferndale: 22 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Geothermal, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mf Pit and Plant | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Mf Pit and Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Well | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Casper Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Casper Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Eastside Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Eastside Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Eastside Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Eastside Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferndale in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Lightning | Ferndale | $2,000 | Lightning hit a white birch tree and a house on Stiller Lane in Milton-Freewater. The tree was split and bark and wooden shrapnel shot in all directions, some of it lodging in the siding of a house. Lightning also traveled through the TV cable and destroyed the resident's TV. |
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.
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 Ferndale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5445055 | 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 1136284. 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.