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Indian Village, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Burns census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97720. The Survey maps it on the Burns quadrangle. It stands 4,245 feet above sea level.

Indian Village within Harney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Indian Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,208 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Firearms and explosives use2
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2006Naturalunder an acreBurns District2572
10 September 1998Naturalunder an acreBurns DistrictHULL FIRE
8 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHines Fire DepartmentDUMP TRUCK
25 August 2011Naturalunder an acreBurns District174
2 August 2007Naturalunder an acreBurns DistrictWATER TANK FIRE
16 August 2013Firearms and explosives use144 acresBurns DistrictSHOOTING RANGE
14 August 1993Naturalunder an acreBurns DistrictRICKMAN
13 August 1996Naturalunder an acreBurns DistrictRADAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harney County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Indian Village: 14 producers, 12 past producers, 3 occurrences. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice, Stone, 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
Five Mile QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hines Higway Cut Stone OccurrenceStone, DimensionOccurrence
Goodman SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Hines Lumber Co.GeothermalProducer
Hotchkiss WellGeothermalProducer
Millpond SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Unnamed Hot SpringGeothermalProducer
ChoateStonePast Producer
Cinder PitPumiceProducer
Five MileStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Harney 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
Burns1.3 miles10
Hines1.4 miles10
Harney14.1 miles11
Lawen17.7 miles8
Narrows22.0 miles8
Riley22.7 miles7
Buchanan24.2 miles9
Trout Creek24.7 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 Indian VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6021822The 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 1161396. 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.