BlockNew Princeton, Oregon
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Drewsey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97721. The Survey maps it on the New Princeton quadrangle. It stands 4,111 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Burns quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Burns quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Burns quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Crane quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Malheur Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS New Princeton quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
15 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of New Princeton between 1996 and 2018, burning about 888 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 24 acres | Burns District | ATWOOD |
| 6 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Burns District | EAGLE |
| 23 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Burns District | ADOBE |
| 12 September 2001 | Natural | 30 acres | Burns District | DARRELS |
| 6 August 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 213 acres | Burns District | BYE BYE BIRDIE |
| 3 August 1997 | Natural | 10 acres | Burns District | DAVIES |
| 23 August 1999 | Natural | 197 acres | Burns District | WINDY PT |
| 16 August 2006 | Natural | 7.2 acres | Burns District | 2475 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 New Princeton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q10986671 | The 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 1136572. 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.