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Flora, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Flora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97828. The Survey maps it on the Flora quadrangle. It stands 4,350 feet above sea level.

Flora within Wallowa County

On record in Flora

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Flora between 1992 and 2019, burning about 273 acres in total. 42 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
Natural42
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestBRODY
29 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBUCK
28 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWallowa UnitDEER POND
2 September 2009Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitROTORTILL
18 September 2010Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitDEVILS TWO TENTHS
12 September 1996Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitRIM ROCK
11 September 1994Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitLITTLE COURTNEY CREEK
9 August 2013Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestCOURTNEY

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 Flora: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wallowa County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flora in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2012: 3 hail. 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
July 2012HailFlora-Winds gusting to 40 mph preceded the hail.
May 2009HailFlora-Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reported nickel sized hail.
August 2006HailFlora-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
Paradise5.4 miles10
Troy8.2 miles11
Grouse8.9 miles11
Bartlett9.8 miles11
Promise13.1 miles10
Eden13.1 miles11
Chico (historical)14.2 miles12
Grossman (historical)15.8 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 FloraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472591The 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 1142256. 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.