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Fox, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Long Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97856. The Survey maps it on the Fox quadrangle. It stands 4,387 feet above sea level.

Fox within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

71 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Fox between 1993 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 43 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
Natural43
Recreation and ceremony15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
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 1998Naturalunder an acreJohn Day UnitLONG
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreJohn Day Unit3945 ROAD
3 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCARTER REST STOP
3 September 1994Naturalunder an acreJohn Day UnitSMITH CREEK
22 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMalheur National ForestOR-MAF-194
19 September 2020Naturalunder an acreMalheur National ForestWILEY
17 September 2001Naturalunder an acreMalheur National ForestOR-MAF-335
15 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreJohn Day UnitFOX CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fox: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fox in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 tornado. 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
October 2003Tornado (F0)Fox-A small weak tornado, estimated strength F0, lasted three minutes with no damage.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Beech Creek2.0 miles13
Long Creek5.0 miles13
Hamilton10.8 miles12
Courtrock11.9 miles12
Caverhill (historical)11.9 miles13
Mount Vernon16.0 miles14
Ritter16.8 miles13
Galena17.9 miles12

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 FoxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5476524The 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 1142382. 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.