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Lehman Springs, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Pilot Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97880. It stands on Warm Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lehman Springs quadrangle. It stands 4,357 feet above sea level.

Lehman Springs within Umatilla County

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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Lehman Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 837 acres in total. 70 started naturally. 1 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
Natural70
Recreation and ceremony21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmatilla National ForestHIDAWAY
7 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestSTRATOSPHERE
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestHUNTER
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresUmatilla National ForestCORNER
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestBOWMAN
4 September 2006Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestTAMARACK
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National Forestnot named
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Lehman Springs: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Lehman Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Umatilla 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
Hidaway Springs4.3 miles10
Albee (historical)13.7 miles10
Ukiah14.4 miles10
McKay24.0 miles9
Pilot Rock24.5 miles8
Gurdane24.8 miles7
Nye27.1 miles8
Meacham27.5 miles10

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 Lehman SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6518904The 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 1144928. 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.