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Meacham, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Pilot Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97859. It stands on Tod Creek. The Survey maps it on the Meacham quadrangle. 85 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Meacham within Umatilla County

On record in Meacham

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

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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Meacham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 1 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
Natural30
Recreation and ceremony11
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Other causes4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
9 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acrePendleton UnitTOD CREEK
7 September 1992Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresPendleton UnitTIP TOP RIDGE
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestCROW RIDGE
30 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePendleton UnitCABIN FIRE
30 September 1996Naturalunder an acrePendleton UnitSHEEP CREEK
3 September 2012Other causesunder an acreUmatilla AgencyMEACHAM LAKE
3 September 2012Other causesunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSPRUCE LANE
27 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acrePendleton UnitMP 257.56

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla 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 Meacham: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
MeachamStonePast Producer
Meacham QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Meacham Rock ProductSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Meacham PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Meacham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Meacham Rock Products PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meacham in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2006: 4 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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
August 2001Thunderstorm WindMeacham$15,000Winds from a dry microburst knocked over 15 trees and damaged a motorhome at Emigrant Springs State Park, located at 4000 feet in the Blue Mountains. An ASOS site 4 miles away in Meacham recorded a peak wind gust of 46 mph associated with this storm.
June 2006HailMeacham-At Emigrant Springs State Park.
July 1998HailMeacham-A thunderstorm produced 3/4 inch hail and 0.25 inches of rain in 15 minutes. Lightning from this storm caused at least 11 spot fires to start. Lightning and wind blown trees also caused scattered power outages.
July 2006HailMeacham-no account filed
May 2000HailMeacham-no account filed
November 1999Heavy RainMeacham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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
Duncan6.7 miles10
McKay10.3 miles9
Gibbon13.7 miles9
Cayuse13.8 miles10
Tutuilla16.8 miles11
Kirkpatrick17.5 miles11
Mission17.9 miles11
Bingham Springs19.1 miles10

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 MeachamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3478093The 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 1146038. 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.