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Lake of the Woods, Oregon

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Keno census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97601. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake of the Woods North quadrangle. It stands 4,957 feet above sea level.

Lake of the Woods within Klamath County

On record in Lake of the Woods

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Lake of the Woods between 1992 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 77 started naturally. 2 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
Natural77
Recreation and ceremony25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Debris and open burning1
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
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestBUTTE CREEK
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestTAMARAK
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestBARBER
5 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestBBQ
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestBILLIE GOAT
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestFAMILY
4 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestPEARCE
3 September 2013Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestBROWN MOUNTAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klamath 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
Recreation (historical)9.3 miles19
Rocky Point9.8 miles19
Clover Station (historical)13.1 miles19
Crystal (historical)15.3 miles19
Running Y Ranch18.7 miles18
Modoc Point18.8 miles19
Chase (historical)19.8 miles19
Algoma21.1 miles18

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 Lake of the WoodsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6478660The 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 1161411. 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.