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Mitchell, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mitchell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97750. It stands on Keyes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mitchell quadrangle. 138 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,777 feet above sea level.

Mitchell within Wheeler County

Population over time

3 figures

Mitchell fell from 170 to 138 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
2000170
2010130-40 (-24%)
2020138+8 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Mitchell between 1992 and 2018, burning about 782 acres in total. 20 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
Natural20
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreJohn Day UnitLEWIS ROCK
29 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresPrineville DistrictGABLE CRK
22 September 2014Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSHOEMAKER
12 September 2001Naturalunder an acreOchoco National Forest1529
12 September 2001Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictGABECRKRNC
9 August 2004Naturalunder an acreJohn Day UnitNELSON CREEK
8 August 2006Natural2.0 acresPrineville District0743
26 August 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMAXWELL SPRING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wheeler County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mitchell: 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Uranium. 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
Gage RanchMercuryOccurrence1940
Gage Ranch ProspectMercuryOccurrence
Unnamed Uranium OccurrenceUraniumOccurrence
Uranium OccurrenceUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Wheeler County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mitchell in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
April 2019Flash FloodMitchell$5,000Total rainfall of 1.67 inches was recorded just east of Mitchell. This heavy rain over a short period of time triggered a flash flood through Huddleston Heights and Nelson Street, and off of High Street and Rosenbaum with mud and debris blocking roads in and around the town of Mitchell.
July 2012HailMitchell-Hail accompanied by heavy rainfall and downed one tree limb.
June 2004Flash FloodMitchell-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMitchell-no account filed
August 2003HailMitchell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wheeler 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
Spoos Mill10.0 miles10
Twickenham12.3 miles12
Waldron (historical)12.7 miles12
Caleb (historical)13.1 miles10
Richmond14.2 miles10
Waterman (historical)14.4 miles10
Service Creek17.7 miles11
Antone (historical)19.3 miles15

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 MitchellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3296990The 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 1146370. 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.