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Midland, Oregon

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Klamath Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97603. It lies near Miller Island. The Survey maps it on the Klamath Falls quadrangle. It stands 4,098 feet above sea level.

Midland within Klamath County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Midland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 were 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
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKlamath UnitLIMPER
7 September 2006Fireworksunder an acreKlamath Unit1 MILE
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreKlamath UnitKENNEL
27 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKlamath UnitM&M
2 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKlamath UnitBLUE MTN
19 September 1997Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKlamath UnitBIG MAC
16 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKlamath UnitPIT
1 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreKlamath UnitKENO TERRACE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klamath County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Midland: 14 producers, 13 past producers, 1 occurrence. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Geothermal, 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
Green Springs HwyDiatomitePast Producer
Lowlands PitPumiceProducer
ColwellGeothermalProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hardboard SpringGeothermalProducer
HolidayGeothermalProducer
Klamath HillsGeothermalOccurrence
Southside BypassSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Southside BypassSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
West Klamath (historical)2.9 miles21
Falcon Heights3.4 miles21
Merganser (historical)3.4 miles21
Fairhaven3.6 miles21
Stewart Lenox4.2 miles21
Plevna (historical)5.0 miles18
Keno5.8 miles18
Worden6.4 miles18

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 MidlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473999The 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 1136536. 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.