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Keating, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Eagle Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97814. It stands on Tucker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Keating quadrangle. It stands 2,723 feet above sea level.

Keating within Baker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Keating between 1994 and 2019, burning about 143 acres in total. 8 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
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
2 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestBALM CR
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresVale DistrictHIGHWAY 86
9 August 1996Fireworksunder an acreVale DistrictKEATING C
23 August 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresVale DistrictCREWS CRK
23 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVale DistrictPHILCORN
14 August 2001Natural10 acresVale DistrictMIDDLE
14 August 2001Natural6.0 acresVale DistrictEAST
12 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVale DistrictHIDDEN T

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Keating: 20 past producers, 8 prospects, 5 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Copper, Antimony. 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
BurkemontCopper, SilverOccurrenceBornite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Malachite, Silver
Clover Creek Copper MineCopper, Gold, Barium-BariteOccurrenceBarite, Chalcopyrite, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite
Copper ProspectCopper, GoldOccurrence
San Luis ClaimAntimony, Copper, TungstenProspect
Sunset GroupAntimony, GoldOccurrence1895
Burkemont MineCopper, Gold, SilverProspect1894
Gold MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Hilltop Keating ClaimCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceChrysocolla, Malachite
Keating Chalk PitDiatomitePast Producer
Keating DiatomiteDiatomiteProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Baker County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keating in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2001: 3 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindKeating1 hurtno account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindKeating-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindKeating-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baker 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
Erwin (historical)1.3 miles14
Encina13.7 miles17
Pleasant Valley13.9 miles17
Sparta14.1 miles14
Baker City14.6 miles15
Estes (historical)14.9 miles15
Wingville17.7 miles15
Haines18.6 miles14

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 KeatingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6382313The 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 1122641. 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.