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Lonerock, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Condon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97823. It stands on Robinette Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lonerock quadrangle. 25 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Lonerock within Gilliam County

Population over time

3 figures

Lonerock grew from 24 to 25 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
200024
201021-3 (-12%)
202025+4 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Lonerock between 1992 and 2019, burning about 223 acres in total. 19 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
Natural19
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreJohn Day UnitKNOLL
12 September 2003Naturalunder an acreJohn Day UnitLOST VALLEY
7 August 2008Natural2.2 acresJohn Day UnitSHEEP HERDER
2 August 2014Natural14 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSTAHL CANYON
18 August 2018Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLOST VALLEY
12 August 2013Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSTAHL CANYON
1 August 1997Naturalunder an acreJohn Day UnitBUCKHORN
31 July 1996Naturalunder an acreJohn Day UnitBROWNS CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilliam County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lonerock in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2019: 4 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
May 2010HailLonerock-Hail ranging in size from nickel to quarter fell for 10 minutes and covered the ground. Heavy rainfall accompanied the hail.
June 2019HailLonerock-no account filed
August 2004HailLonerock-no account filed
August 2004HailLonerock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gilliam 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
Trail Fork (historical)9.8 miles11
Thirtymile15.6 miles12
Mayville16.4 miles11
Condon18.9 miles12
Igo (historical)23.9 miles11
Alville (historical)27.8 miles11
Clem28.5 miles11
Olex32.0 miles11

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 LonerockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1868949The 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 1145373. 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.

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.