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Long Creek, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Long Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97856. It stands on Everett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Long Creek quadrangle. 173 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,754 feet above sea level.

Long Creek within Grant County

Population over time

3 figures

Long Creek fell from 228 to 173 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
2000228
2010197-31 (-14%)
2020173-24 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

64 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Long Creek between 1993 and 2020, burning about 198 acres in total. 37 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
Natural37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Other causes2
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
8 September 1998Naturalunder an acreJohn Day UnitLONG
5 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreJohn Day UnitLONG CREEK #2
3 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCARTER REST STOP
3 September 1994Naturalunder an acreJohn Day UnitSMITH CREEK
18 September 2020Naturalunder an acreJohn Day UnitALDER BRANCH
15 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreJohn Day UnitFOX CREEK
12 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresJohn Day UnitLONG CREEK
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.5 acresJohn Day UnitAIRPORT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Long Creek: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mp 32.7 Kimber Long CreekStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mp32.7 Kimber Long CreekStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Creek in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2014: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2001HailLong Creek-Dime-sized hail covered the ground on the west side of Long Creek, which is located in the Blue Mountains at an elevation of 3800 feet. One local farmer reported slight damage to his alfalfa crop.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLong Creek-no account filed
August 2004HailLong Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Fox5.0 miles13
Beech Creek7.0 miles13
Caverhill (historical)7.2 miles13
Hamilton11.0 miles12
Ritter12.5 miles13
Range14.3 miles13
Courtrock14.9 miles12
Galena15.3 miles12

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 Long CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2217462The 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 1145390. 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.

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.