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Hot Lake, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the La Grande census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97850. The Survey maps it on the Craig Mountain quadrangle. It stands 2,704 feet above sea level.

Hot Lake within Union County

On record in Hot Lake

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Hot Lake between 1993 and 2016, burning about 203 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLaGrande DistrictHINES PIT
28 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersRIDGE TOP
1 September 2002Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictCRAIG MOUNTAIN
6 August 1993Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictFREEWAY RIDGE
22 August 2013Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersPOWER POLE
19 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresLaGrande DistrictHOT LAKE
15 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaGrande DistrictFREEWAY FIRE
10 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDRIFT CORNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Hot Lake: 14 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Hot Lake SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Union Station Hot SpringGeothermalProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hot Lake in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 1 flood, 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 2008FloodHot Lake$30,000Flooding along Catherine Creek and the Grande Ronde River damaged several roads in Union County.
August 2024HailHot Lake-A social media report from Cove, Oregon indicated a thunderstorm produced hail stones to the size of 0.75 inches.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Union5.5 miles12
Island City8.1 miles10
Cove8.7 miles13
La Grande8.8 miles10
Alicel11.1 miles13
Telocaset12.1 miles13
Perry13.2 miles10
Imbler14.8 miles13

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 Hot LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5910095The 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 1136401. 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.