Little Elk, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Eddyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97343. It stands on Eddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eddyville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Little Elk within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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.

1942 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Salem quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Corvallis quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Eddyville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Little Elk (historical) between 1993 and 2019, burning about 35 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
8 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Toledo Unit	KLAMATH CREEK
23 September 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Toledo Unit	DERRICK LAKE
22 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Toledo Unit	CLINE HILL
14 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Toledo Unit	PETERSON CREEK
30 August 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Toledo Unit	HUTCHCROFT
18 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Toledo Unit	SCOVILLE ROAD
12 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Toledo Unit	LONG TOM CREEK
8 July 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Toledo Unit	EDDYVILLE II

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Little Elk (historical): 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Eddyville	0.9 miles	11
Chitwood	2.1 miles	11
Morrison (historical)	4.1 miles	11
Pioneer City (historical)	4.2 miles	11
Pioneer	4.5 miles	11
Nortons	4.6 miles	12
Elk City	5.3 miles	11
Logsden	6.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1166536. 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.