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Irrigon, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Boardman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97844. It lies near Island Number 17 (historical). The Survey maps it on the Irrigon quadrangle. 2,011 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 297 feet above sea level.

Irrigon within Morrow County

Population over time

3 figures

Irrigon grew from 1,702 to 2,011 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
20001,702
20101,826+124 (+7%)
20202,011+185 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Irrigon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,284 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes1
Smoking1
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
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresUmatilla National Wildlife RefugePATTERSON FERRY
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresUmatilla National Wildlife RefugePATTERSON SLOUGH
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMcNary National Wildlife RefugePATTERSON FIRE
17 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance550 acresUmatilla National Wildlife RefugePARIWHRAIL
8 August 2008Natural9.6 acresUmatilla National Wildlife RefugeCOLUMBIA SOUTH
5 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance600 acresUmatilla National Wildlife RefugePAT-95-2
28 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined133 acresUmatilla National Wildlife RefugePATER 1-94
25 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresUmatilla National Wildlife RefugeHATCHERY ROAD

Every fire recorded in Morrow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Irrigon: 10 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Morrow County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irrigon in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 5 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
May 2006Thunderstorm WindIrrigon-10,000 poplar trees blown down at Potlatch Tree Farm. Winds estimated 70 to 80 mph.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindIrrigon-Several wind sensors located adjacent to the Umatilla Army Depot received severe wind gusts. 3 sites measured gusts of 70, 65 and 59 mph respectively.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindIrrigon-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindIrrigon-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindIrrigon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrow 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
Clarke7.0 miles16
Boardman11.7 miles16
Pine City22.1 miles11
Galloway (historical)23.4 miles11
Ella24.8 miles15
Cecil31.3 miles13
Ione32.4 miles13
Lexington32.7 miles7

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 IrrigonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2132394The 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 1167710. 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.