Lewis, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Imnaha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97828. It stands on Gooseberry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Greenwood Butte quadrangle. It stands 3,520 feet above sea level.

Lewis within Wallowa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1955 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Elk Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Wallowa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Greenwood Butte quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Lewis between 1992 and 2018, burning about 5,960 acres in total. 35 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
Natural	35
Recreation and ceremony	5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	CROW CREEK
24 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	not named
2 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	not named
10 September 1997	Natural	3.0 acres	Wallowa Unit	ROMAINE GULCH
8 August 2005	Natural	2.5 acres	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	SUMAC CREEK
7 August 2008	Natural	1.8 acres	Wallowa Unit	B AND H
6 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	MUDDY ROAD
6 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	SARAH POINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wallowa 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Chico (historical)	4.3 miles	12
Zumwalt	7.8 miles	10
Imnaha	16.6 miles	10
Paradise	18.4 miles	10
Flora	18.4 miles	9
Enterprise	20.7 miles	10
Evans	21.7 miles	11
Lostine	22.6 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q14709039

The 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 1144961. 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.