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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.

Island City within Union County

Population over time

3 figures

Island 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.

YearPeople Change
2000916
2010989+73 (+8%)
20201,144+155 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

35 since 1994

Regional 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 ceremony13
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1

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 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersROBS HILL
2 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLaGrande DistrictPREDATOR
2 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLaGrande DistrictGLASS HILL
31 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreLaGrande DistrictDEALS CANYON
30 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLaGrande DistrictATV II
29 August 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLaGrande DistrictMARVIN #2
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictGLASS HILL
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
La GrandePGEOccurrence
La Grande PitSand and Gravel, Construction, PlatinumOccurrenceSand and Gravel
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Dry BeaverStonePast Producer
Dry Beaver PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mp 258 Old Oregon TrailStonePast Producer
Mp 258 Old Oregon TrailStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999HailIsland City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
La Grande2.5 miles10
Alicel5.6 miles13
Perry6.5 miles10
Hot Lake8.1 miles12
Imbler9.3 miles13
Hilgard9.7 miles10
Summerville10.4 miles10
Cove12.9 miles13

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2439890The 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.