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Millican, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Sisters-Millican census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97701. The Survey maps it on the Millican quadrangle.

Millican within Deschutes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Millican between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 30 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
Natural30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Firearms and explosives use1
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
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictI 954
13 September 2007Naturalunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0913
13 September 2007Naturalunder an acrePrineville District0914 COSSA
9 August 2006Naturalunder an acrePrineville District0757 BEETLE FIRE
8 August 2019Naturalunder an acrePrineville District0624
7 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePrineville District497
4 August 1999Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictPOWERLINE
31 August 2007Naturalunder an acrePrineville District0816 APPLE

Every fire recorded in Deschutes County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millican in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2006: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2006HailMillican-Penny to nickel size hail accompanied by 50 mph wind gusts.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindMillican-A spotter five miles south of Millican reported thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph. Wind knocked out power to about 1,200 customers for ten minutes.
July 1998HailMillican-A spotter six miles south of Millican reported dime (3/4 inch) hail.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMillican-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deschutes 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
Alfalfa14.6 miles15
Brothers17.4 miles9
Bend24.3 miles19
Deschutes River Woods24.5 miles17
Deschutes26.1 miles16
Imperial (historical)26.9 miles9
Sunriver27.5 miles14
Tumalo28.7 miles16

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 MillicanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6859539The 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 1136541. 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.

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.