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Lostine, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wallowa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97857. The Survey maps it on the Lostine quadrangle. 241 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,373 feet above sea level.

Lostine within Wallowa County

On record in Lostine

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Lostine fell from 263 to 241 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
2000263
2010213-50 (-19%)
2020241+28 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Lostine between 1994 and 2020, burning about 703 acres in total. 25 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
Natural25
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGWYNN
22 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWallowa UnitBOAT TRAILER
13 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use249 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTHATCH
12 September 1996Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestLITTLE BEAR
12 September 1996Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitALLEN CANYON
3 August 1994Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitVALLEY VIEW
29 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use62 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSCHOOL FLAT
28 August 1994Natural303 acresWallowa UnitGREEN BASIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wallowa County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lostine: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Limestone, General, 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
Limestone OccurranceLimestone, GeneralProducer
Mp 55.4 Wallowa-LakeStonePast Producer
Mp 55.4 Wallowa-LakeStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed Limestone OccurrenceLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wallowa County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lostine in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLostine-Public reported several downed trees and power outages. Wind speed estimated from damage.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Lostine-COOP observer sent in pictures and a brief video of the short lived tornado.
August 2009Heavy RainLostine-Rainfall of 1.1 inches was measured in 20 minutes.
August 2006LightningLostine-Lightning started a barn fire which was quickly extinguished by neighbors and the Lostine Volunteer Fire Department.
July 1998Flash FloodLostine-Water overflowed banks of Hurricane Creek. Mudslides in Lostine Canyon covered a few places along the road.
July 2016HailLostine-no account filed
June 2010HailLostine-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Evans1.0 miles11
Wallowa7.7 miles10
Enterprise9.0 miles10
Alder (historical)9.3 miles10
Joseph14.0 miles12
Minam18.1 miles10
Maxville19.1 miles11
Eustis (historical)21.6 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 LostineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2355783The 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 1156652. 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.