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Imbler, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97841. The Survey maps it on the Imbler quadrangle. 245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,725 feet above sea level.

Imbler within Union County

Population over time

3 figures

Imbler fell from 284 to 245 between 2000 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
2000284
2010306+22 (+8%)
2020245-61 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Imbler between 1993 and 2019, burning about 718 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 2 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
Natural15
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLaGrande DistrictINDIAN CREEK CAMP FIRE
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictBEE SWARM
10 September 1997Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictGEIGER BUTTE
7 August 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresLaGrande DistrictHARRIS ROAD
7 August 2005Arson/incendiarism680 acresLaGrande DistrictRHINEHART
30 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWIRE FIRE
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictMT HARRIS II
27 August 1996Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictCLARK CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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 Imbler: 14 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Diatomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
West QuarryStonePast Producer
Elgin Rock ProductionStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Indian CreekDiatomiteOccurrenceSedimentary
Indian Creek DiatomiteDiatomiteOccurrence
Unnamed Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Wagner WellGeothermalProducer
West QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Elgin Rock ProductionSand 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

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Imbler in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 4 hail, 3 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1999LightningImbler$46,000Early morning thunderstorms in the Grande Ronde valley produced frequent lightning and small hail. 800 customers in the towns of Elgin, Summerville and Imbler lost power for several hours. Two costly fires were started by lightning...one of which was a house fire which damaged a home in Imbler. The second fire started in a haystack and caused 46 thousand dollars worth of damage.
September 2001LightningImbler$5,000Lightning struck a power pole, knocking out power to around 260 customers of the Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative for around 3 hours. Other small outages affected around 50 residences near Elgin.
August 2001LightningImbler$5,000Lightning struck a power pole in the town of Imbler, cutting power to around 260 customers of the Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative for around 3 hours. Other brief outages nearby in Elgin affected fewer than 50 residents.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindImbler$1,000Wind gusts ranging from 30 to 40 MPH from a thunderstorm uprooted 4-6 small trees.
May 2016HailImbler-no account filed
May 2015HailImbler-no account filed
July 2012HailImbler-no account filed
July 2006HailImbler-no account filed

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
Summerville2.9 miles10
Alicel3.9 miles13
Indian Valley (historical)5.8 miles10
Elgin7.6 miles10
Island City9.3 miles10
Elk Flat (historical)10.7 miles10
La Grande11.4 miles10
Perry13.3 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 ImblerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2355800The 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 1143998. 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.