BlockIone, Oregon
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Ione-Lexington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97843. It stands on Lorraine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ione North quadrangle. 337 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresIone grew from 321 to 337 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 321 | |
| 2010 | 329 | +8 (+2%) |
| 2020 | 337 | +8 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Blalock Island quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1908 USGS Blalock Island quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Ione North quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Hermiston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
10 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ione in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2005 | Flash Flood | Ione | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Ione | - | The Morrow County Emergency Manager posted pictures via social media post flash flooding through the town. The pictures showed water overflowing drainage ditches and flowing over the roadway, muddy debris leftover across sidewalks and the road within town, and water still flowing into the area creek from the hills surrounding the town. Other photo's from the city of Ione show water and debris that had flowed into local businesses as well. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ione | - | Tree down across route 74 at Ella Road. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Ione | - | Large hail accompanied by wind gust to 53 mph. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Ione | - | A spotter reported nickle-sized hail and 0.31 inches of rain in just 10 minutes one mile north of Ione. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Ione | - | A farmer reported severe damage to wheat crop. Hail dented three vehicles. |
| September 2013 | Hail | Ione | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Ione | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Ione | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Ione | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Ione | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2332819 | 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 1123365. 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.
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.