Lost Valley, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Fossil census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97830. The Survey maps it on the Lonerock quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lost Valley within Wheeler County

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.

1953 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Lonerock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Heppner quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Lonerock quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Lost Valley (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,313 acres in total. 40 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	40
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
30 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	John Day Unit	BUCKHORN
30 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	John Day Unit	KNOLL
12 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	LOST VALLEY
10 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	KINZUA STRIP
7 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	OXHEAD II
7 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	OXHEAD III
7 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	OXHEAD
7 August 2008	Natural	2.2 acres	John Day Unit	SHEEP HERDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wheeler County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lost Valley (historical): 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
	Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Wheeler 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
Kinzua (historical)	5.6 miles	11
Fossil	12.1 miles	11
Service Creek	17.8 miles	11
Spray	18.8 miles	10
Richmond	22.4 miles	10
Waldron (historical)	23.0 miles	12
Twickenham	23.4 miles	12
Waterman (historical)	30.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1160543. 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.