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Gibbon, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Umatilla Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97810. It stands on Meacham Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gibbon quadrangle. It stands 1,759 feet above sea level.

Gibbon within Umatilla County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Gibbon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,352 acres in total. 27 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
Natural27
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Other causes3

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 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUmatilla Agency{TM 237.5
6 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acrePendleton UnitM.P.236.5
27 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresPendleton UnitBINGHAM ROAD
22 September 2014Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersROCK SLIDE
22 September 2014Naturalunder an acreUmatilla AgencyINC 1277
22 September 1992Naturalunder an acrePendleton UnitWILDHORSE
19 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUmatilla AgencyRYAN GRADE
11 September 1998Naturalunder an acrePendleton UnitWILDHORSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla 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 Gibbon: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Squaw CreekSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
ThornhollowStonePast Producer
Squaw Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thornhollow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gibbon in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 4 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
February 2018FloodGibbon-Umatilla near Gibbon - Flood stage 7.0 feet. River went above flood stage at 1000 PST on the 4th, cresting at 7.5 feet at 1845 PST on the 4th, then went below flood stage at 230 PST on the 5th.
March 2017FloodGibbon-The Umatilla river near Gibbon (flood stage 7.0) crested at 7.8 feet around 0500 on March 16th.
January 2011FloodGibbon-Minor to moderate flooding along the Umatilla River from Gibbon to Echo. The gauge at Gibbon crested at 7.21 which was .21 above flood stage. The gauge at Pendleton crested at 10.31 which was 2.51 above flood stage.
March 2014FloodGibbon-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
Bingham Springs7.6 miles10
Weston8.5 miles8
Duncan9.9 miles10
Athena10.2 miles8
Cayuse10.3 miles10
Adams11.5 miles10
Meacham13.7 miles10
Tollgate15.5 miles10

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 GibbonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5558893The 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 1142712. 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.