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Frenchglen, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Diamond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97736. It lies near P Hill. The Survey maps it on the Frenchglen quadrangle.

Frenchglen within Harney County

On record in Frenchglen

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Frenchglen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49,839 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 3 were 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
Natural24
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
3 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMalheur National Wildlife RefugeBALER
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBurns DistrictPEANUT
15 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBurns District7473
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.8 acresBurns District215
11 September 1992Naturalunder an acreBurns DistrictFRENCHGLEN
7 August 2013Natural4.3 acresMalheur National Wildlife RefugeEMBRY RIDDLE
28 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMalheur National Wildlife RefugeMOWER
26 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMalheur National Wildlife RefugeISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harney County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Frenchglen: 3 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Bullion Quartz ClaimSilver, Lead, Gold, ZincOccurrenceVein
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Frenchglen Warm SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Hoghouse Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Unnamed Hot SpringGeothermalProspect

Every working recorded in Harney County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frenchglen in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2022Heavy RainFrenchglen-The Mesonet station, SLVO3, near Frenchglen measured 1.50 inches of total rainfall.
August 2019HailFrenchglen-BLM employees reported golf ball hail at the Frenchglen BLM office.
June 2010FloodFrenchglen-Burns BLM Interagency dispatch reported Page Springs Campground was flooded.

Every storm recorded in Harney 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
Diamond18.4 miles7
Andrews29.7 miles11
Voltage30.5 miles8
Narrows31.3 miles8
Princeton (historical)34.0 miles8
New Princeton36.1 miles9
Fields40.8 miles12
Lawen42.9 miles8

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 FrenchglenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474171The 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 1136302. 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.