Frost Mill, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Drewsey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97904. It lies near Van Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Magpie Table quadrangle. It stands 4,997 feet above sea level.

Frost Mill within Harney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1955 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Logan Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1978 USGS John Day quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Magpie Table quadrangle1:24000
1996 USGS Magpie Table quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Frost Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,676 acres in total. 61 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	61
Recreation and ceremony	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	COUGAR
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	VAN GULCH
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	MCMULLEN SPRINGS
12 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	OR-MAF-305
11 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	not named
10 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	OR-MAF-2296
8 August 2011	Natural	1.7 acres	Malheur National Forest	#10129
5 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	OR-MAF-2176

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Van	3.9 miles	9
Trout Creek	17.5 miles	10
Drewsey	20.7 miles	10
Buchanan	26.8 miles	9
Harney	28.5 miles	11
Burns	37.8 miles	10
Indian Village	38.6 miles	10
Hines	39.9 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q114538682

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 1142509. 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.