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Gateway, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Madras census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97741. The Survey maps it on the Gateway quadrangle. It stands 1,795 feet above sea level.

Gateway within Jefferson 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Gateway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,985 acres in total. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePrineville DistrictHAYTRUCK
5 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution80 acresCentral Oregon Rangeland Protection Association0839 RN
26 September 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acrePrineville District1231
2 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePrineville District0868
19 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use50 acresPrineville DistrictTROUT CRK
19 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresPrineville DistrictJUNCTION
18 September 2000Smoking4.0 acresOchoco National Forest1281
16 September 2012Natural1,680 acresWarm Springs AgencyBEAR SLIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gateway: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Gateway QuarryStonePast Producer
Gateway QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Qualle QuarryStonePast Producer
Qualle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gateway in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2001HailGateway$20,000no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGateway-Trees down and neighbor lost porch.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGateway-Power poles reported down.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Willowdale7.7 miles8
Warm Springs9.8 miles11
Madras10.1 miles14
Metolius14.0 miles13
Ashwood17.6 miles7
Culver18.6 miles13
Grizzly21.0 miles10
Lamonta (historical)21.3 miles17

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 GatewayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5527187The 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 1136311. 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.