Gurdane, Oregon

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pilot Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97868. The Survey maps it on the Gurdane quadrangle. It stands 3,724 feet above sea level.

Gurdane within Umatilla County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Gurdane quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Heppner quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Gurdane between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,205 acres in total. 27 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	27
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	BIG POT
11 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	COOPER
8 August 2009	Natural	20 acres	Pendleton Unit	BUTTER CREEK
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	GURDANE
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	UPPER BUTTER CREEK
5 August 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	Pendleton Unit	BUTTERCREEK
4 August 2009	Natural	299 acres	Pendleton Unit	GURDANE 2
31 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	SWALE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Pilot Rock

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gurdane: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Albee (historical)	11.1 miles	10
Ukiah	13.0 miles	10
Nye	14.8 miles	8
Pilot Rock	20.7 miles	8
Hidaway Springs	21.6 miles	10
Lehman Springs	24.8 miles	10
Nolin	28.6 miles	11
Green Meadows	28.9 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 Q130541460

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 1136347. 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.