Island City, Oregon
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the La Grande census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97850. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Grande quadrangle. 1,144 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,743 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresIsland City grew from 916 to 1,144 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 | 916 | |
| 2010 | 989 | +73 (+8%) |
| 2020 | 1,144 | +155 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS La Grande SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS La Grande quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS La Grande quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
35 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Island City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.5 acres | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | ROBS HILL |
| 2 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | LaGrande District | PREDATOR |
| 2 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | LaGrande District | GLASS HILL |
| 31 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | LaGrande District | DEALS CANYON |
| 30 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | LaGrande District | ATV II |
| 29 August 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | LaGrande District | MARVIN #2 |
| 28 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | LaGrande District | GLASS HILL |
| 28 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 23 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Island City: 14 past producers, 7 producers, 2 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Platinum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Grande | PGE | Occurrence | ||
| La Grande Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Platinum | Occurrence | Sand and Gravel | |
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Dry Beaver | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Dry Beaver Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mp 258 Old Oregon Trail | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Mp 258 Old Oregon Trail | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Island City in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Hail | Island City | - | 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 Island City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2439890 | 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 1164106. 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.




