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Government Camp, Oregon

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Mount Hood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97028. It lies near Multorpor Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Government Camp quadrangle. 179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,416 feet above sea level.

Government Camp within Clackamas County

On record in Government Camp

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Government Camp fell from 193 to 179 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010193
2020179-14 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Government Camp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 8 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
Recreation and ceremony86
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestSTILL CREEK
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestFINALLY
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestWHITE SALMON
5 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestTRILLIUM
5 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestMUD CREEK
30 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestSALMON-BARLOW
29 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestSNOW CABIN
28 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National Forest658

Every fire recorded in Clackamas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Government Camp: 18 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
SwimGeothermalProducer
U S Forest Service 026Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
U S Forest Service 26Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
White RiverSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Laurel Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Laurel Hill Quarry / Usfs 24StonePast Producer
Trillium Lake PitStonePast Producer
Trillium Lake PitStoneProducer
U S Forest Service 027Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
U S Forest Service 028Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Government Camp in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2013: 3 hail, 1 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
January 2011FloodGovernment Camp$9,000,000Oregon Department of Transportation reported approximately nine million dollars in damage to roads during the January 15 - 16 winter storm. The heaviest damages to roads were in the Welches, Zigzag, and Lolo Pass area of Clackamas County.
August 2013HailGovernment Camp-Heavy rain and hail caused debris to cover part of the access road between Government Camp and the Timberline Lodge. The hail size was estimated.
August 2013HailGovernment Camp-A thunderstorm produced 1.5 inch diameter hail on Highway 26 around 3 miles west of Government Camp.
June 2009HailGovernment Camp-A park ranger on the Sisi Butte lookout tower reported heavy rain accompanied by hail of various sizes, the largest estimated to be 3/4 of an inch.

Every storm recorded in Clackamas 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
Rhododendron8.5 miles16
Faubion9.9 miles16
Zigzag10.4 miles16
Welches11.1 miles16
Wemme11.6 miles16
Mount Hood Village12.5 miles16
Wildwood12.5 miles16
Mountain Air Park13.1 miles16

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 Government CampAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3112813The 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 1162594. 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.