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Merrill, Oregon

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Merrill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97633. The Survey maps it on the Merrill quadrangle. 821 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,071 feet above sea level.

Merrill within Klamath County

Population over time

2 figures

Merrill fell from 897 to 821 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
2000897
2020821-76 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Merrill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 434 acres in total. 10 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
Debris and open burning17
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Firearms and explosives use1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKlamath UnitCANAL
7 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKlamath UnitTAYLOR
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.1 acresLower Klamath National Wildlife RefugeSHEEPY
4 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution2.2 acresKlamath UnitDODDS
16 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreModoc National ForestHAWK
7 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKlamath UnitSTUKEL
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMERRILL
30 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreModoc National ForestINCINERATOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klamath County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Merrill: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Merrill PitPumiceProducer
Unnamed PitPumiceProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Cinder PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cinder PitsStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Merrill PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Klamath County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Merrill in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 funnel cloud. 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 1997Funnel CloudMerrill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Klamath 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
Malone2.2 miles18
White Lake City (historical)2.8 miles18
Bedfield (historical)10.1 miles18
Henley10.2 miles19
Malin10.2 miles18
Olene10.2 miles19
Falcon Heights11.3 miles21
Pine Grove11.4 miles19

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 MerrillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2208399The 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 1124069. 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.