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.
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
Frenchglen Hotellisted 1984
Riddle Ranchlisted 1991
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Adel quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Adel quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Adel quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Adel quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Frenchglen quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Steens Mtn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
42 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Malheur National Wildlife Refuge | BALER |
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Burns District | PEANUT |
| 15 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Burns District | 7473 |
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.8 acres | Burns District | 215 |
| 11 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Burns District | FRENCHGLEN |
| 7 August 2013 | Natural | 4.3 acres | Malheur National Wildlife Refuge | EMBRY RIDDLE |
| 28 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Malheur National Wildlife Refuge | MOWER |
| 26 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Malheur National Wildlife Refuge | ISLAND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bullion Quartz Claim | Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Frenchglen Warm Spring | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Hoghouse Hot Springs | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Hot Spring | Geothermal | Prospect |
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Heavy Rain | Frenchglen | - | The Mesonet station, SLVO3, near Frenchglen measured 1.50 inches of total rainfall. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Frenchglen | - | BLM employees reported golf ball hail at the Frenchglen BLM office. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Frenchglen | - | Burns BLM Interagency dispatch reported Page Springs Campground was flooded. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond | 18.4 miles | 7 | |
| Andrews | 29.7 miles | 11 | |
| Voltage | 30.5 miles | 8 | |
| Narrows | 31.3 miles | 8 | |
| Princeton (historical) | 34.0 miles | 8 | |
| New Princeton | 36.1 miles | 9 | |
| Fields | 40.8 miles | 12 | |
| Lawen | 42.9 miles | 8 |
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 Frenchglen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3474171 | 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 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.





