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La Pine, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sisters-Millican census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97739. It stands on Long Prairie Slough. The Survey maps it on the La Pine quadrangle. 2,512 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,236 feet above sea level.

La Pine within Deschutes County

On record in La Pine

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

La Pine fell from 5,799 to 2,512 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
20005,799
20101,653-4,146 (-71%)
20202,512+859 (+52%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

340 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 340 fires within 5 miles of La Pine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 853 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 20 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
Debris and open burning75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Recreation and ceremony49
Natural40
Smoking34
Arson/incendiarism20
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Other causes11
Fireworks8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6

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
9 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDEEDON 0881
9 September 1997Smokingunder an acreSisters UnitFINLEY BUTTE # 2
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLA PINE WAY #574
8 September 2011Smokingunder an acreSisters UnitANIMAL HOSPITAL
8 September 2006Naturalunder an acrePrineville District0925
8 September 2005Smokingunder an acreSisters UnitDICK RD
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0956 NE
6 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCOACH 0856

Every fire recorded in Deschutes County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of La Pine: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice. 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
Finley Butte PitPumiceProducer
Finley ButteStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Finley ButteStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Burgess PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Burgess PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Finley Butte PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sun CountrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sun Country PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Deschutes County

Storms near this place

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Pine in 28 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 20 hail, 3 lightning, 2 heavy rain, 2 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
June 2009LightningLa Pine1 hurtA 14 year boy was struck by lightning while standing outside the gymnasium at LaPine High School. He was hospitalized with burns to his chest and ankle areas and also suffered eye injury and a perforated eardrum.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindLa Pine-Trees down and 1.00 inch hail.
May 2018Heavy RainLa Pine-Slow moving thunderstorms caused heavy rain in and around La Pine, in Deschutes county. Rain fall of up to 1.3 inches occurred with ponding of water on driveways and property due to poor drainage of relatively flat ground. Small hail occurred, piling to a depth of 1 inch, 4 miles SW of La Pine causing standing water.
July 2012HailLa Pine-Quarter sized hail dropped temperature from 90 degrees to 66 degrees.
July 2012HailLa Pine-Nickel sized hail accompanied by heavy rainfall for 10 minutes.
August 2008HailLa Pine-Penny hail covering the ground.
July 2001HailLa Pine-Penny sized hail completely covered the ground.
August 2001LightningLa Pine-Lightning from dry thunderstorms started several fires that burned 350 acres just east of the Crane Prairie Reservoir. This blaze brought smoky skies to the city of Bend and forced the evacuation of the Round Mountain lookout tower and the Sheep Bridge campground.
July 2001FloodLa Pine-0.68 of an inch of rain fell in 20 minutes. The runoff flooded several low lying intersections to a depth of 6 inches.
August 2000LightningLa Pine-Lightning from several dry thunderstorms started numerous fires in the Vale district of the Bureau of Land Management. The most serious fire was located in the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. It spread to 500 acres and threatened several campsites.
September 1998HailLa Pine-Dime to golfball sized hail fell in La Pine. Windows were broken out.
May 1998Heavy RainLa Pine-A thunderstorm that moved through Deschutes County produced heavy rain and strong wind. The rain was falling so hard that cars had to pull off the road on Highway 97. A spotter reported 0.50 inches of rain.
July 1998HailLa Pine-A spotter eight miles northwest of La Pine reported dime sized hail that made theground white. 0.60 inches of rain fell in half an hour.
June 2020HailLa Pine-no account filed
June 2020HailLa Pine-no account filed
May 2020HailLa Pine-no account filed
July 2012HailLa Pine-no account filed
July 2012HailLa Pine-no account filed
August 2010HailLa Pine-no account filed
August 2009HailLa Pine-no account filed
August 2008HailLa Pine-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLa Pine-no account filed
July 2006HailLa Pine-no account filed
July 2006HailLa Pine-no account filed
July 2006HailLa Pine-no account filed
June 2005HailLa Pine-no account filed
May 2005HailLa Pine-no account filed
August 1999HailLa Pine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deschutes 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
Three Rivers10.5 miles15
Sunriver15.1 miles14
Deschutes River Woods23.5 miles17
Elk Lake26.8 miles18
Bend28.6 miles19
Millican34.1 miles10
Tumalo34.3 miles16
Deschutes36.0 miles16

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 La PineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1003838The 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 1144724. 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.