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Ironside, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Brogan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97908. It lies in Ironside Valley. The Survey maps it on the Ironside quadrangle. It stands 3,783 feet above sea level.

Ironside within Malheur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Ironside between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,824 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
30 September 2016Natural8.0 acresVale DistrictIRONSIDE RFPA 1
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresVale DistrictIRONSIDE RFPA ASSIST 1
14 August 1998Natural25 acresVale DistrictWILLOW CRK
16 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,789 acresVale DistrictROSE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Malheur County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ironside in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 flash flood. 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
July 1998Flash FloodIronside-Scattered thunderstorms produced minor flash floods over several county roads in the Ironside area. No damage or injuries were reported.

Every storm recorded in Malheur 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
Bonita7.7 miles9
Caviness (historical)9.2 miles9
Eldorado12.7 miles10
Malheur City (historical)13.2 miles10
Clover (historical)13.5 miles9
Humboldt Basin (historical)19.5 miles10
Cake (historical)20.8 miles10
Brogan23.3 miles9

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 IronsideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6073245The 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 1136412. 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.

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.