Hidaway Springs, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Pilot Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97880. The Survey maps it on the Lehman Springs quadrangle. It stands 4,160 feet above sea level.

Hidaway Springs within Umatilla County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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
1967 USGS Lehman Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS La Grande quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Lehman Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Hidaway Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,122 acres in total. 58 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	58
Recreation and ceremony	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
9 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	HIDAWAY
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Umatilla National Forest	CORNER
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	BOWMAN
4 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	TAMARACK
4 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	OWENS BUTTE
4 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	LANE CREEK
3 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named
29 September 1996	Smoking	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	LEHMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hidaway Springs: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Lehman Hot Springs	Geothermal	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
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
Lehman Springs	4.3 miles	10
Ukiah	10.3 miles	10
Albee (historical)	10.7 miles	10
Gurdane	21.6 miles	7
Pilot Rock	24.8 miles	8
Nye	26.1 miles	8
McKay	26.2 miles	9
Meacham	30.9 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 Q122553139

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 1143542. 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.