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Fulton, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Pendleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97801. The Survey maps it on the Mission quadrangle. It stands 1,532 feet above sea level.

Fulton within Umatilla County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Fulton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,019 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Natural1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUmatilla AgencyPOWERPOLE
9 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUmatilla AgencyUPRR7
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8,212 acresWallowa-Whitman National ForestCACTUS MOUNTAIN
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use100 acresUmatilla AgencyDOGSLEEP
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresUmatilla AgencyMCCORMMACH
2 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresUmatilla AgencyMP 214
18 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution225 acresUmatilla AgencyELIZABETHAN
17 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use35 acresUmatilla AgencyLINDELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Fulton: 15 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
BoggottiStonePast Producer
Boggotti PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
DuffStonePast Producer
Duff PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
German HallStonePast Producer
German Hall PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Job 75StonePast Producer
Job 75Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fulton in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 flash flood. 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
September 2013Flash FloodFulton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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
Riverside3.9 miles11
Pendleton4.5 miles12
Mission5.4 miles11
Kirkpatrick5.8 miles11
Pendair Heights5.8 miles12
Glendale7.1 miles12
Tutuilla7.9 miles11
Rieth8.1 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.

Wikidata item Q130541486The 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 1136307. 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.