North Powder, Oregon
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Union census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97867. The Survey maps it on the North Powder quadrangle. 504 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,256 feet above sea level.
On record in North Powder
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
A.B. and Son Hudelson Buildinglisted 1999
Population over time
3 figuresNorth Powder grew from 489 to 504 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 489 | |
| 2010 | 439 | -50 (-10%) |
| 2020 | 504 | +65 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1906 USGS Telocaset quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS North Powder quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Enterprise quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS North Powder quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of North Powder between 1997 and 2001, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Umatilla Agency | WEIGH STAT |
| 21 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Umatilla Agency | MCKAY THIS |
| 25 July 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Umatilla Agency | W 218 |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 46 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of North Powder: 21 past producers, 10 occurrences, 8 prospects, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper, Silver, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckeye Mine | Gold, Zinc, Copper, Silver | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Jackrabbit Prospect | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Jackrabbite Gold Prospect | Gold, Copper, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Kropp Hot Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| North Powder Mine | Gold, Silver, Antimony, Arsenic, Zinc | Past Producer | Gold | |
| North Powder Mine | Gold, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic, Antimony | Prospect | ||
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Powder in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 9 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Hail | North Powder | $2,000 | Several fields of alfalfa near North Powder were damaged by hail. An insurance agent estimated damages to local structures at around 2 thousand dollars, mostly to paint on metal sidings. |
| July 2024 | Hail | North Powder | - | A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for a cell in southern Union and Wallowa County that produced reports of severe hail. |
| May 2023 | Hail | North Powder | - | Via a public report, hail up to 0.75 inches fell in North Powder at 1611 PDT. |
| June 2010 | Hail | North Powder | - | Dime and penny sized hail reported by the public. |
| June 2010 | Hail | North Powder | - | Up to quarter sized hail covered the ground to 1 inch depth. Power outage occurred. |
| September 1998 | Flash Flood | North Powder | - | A cabinet shop sustained water and mud damage from a flash flood five miles west of North Powder. |
| July 2006 | Hail | North Powder | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | North Powder | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | North Powder | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | North Powder | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telocaset | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| Union | 12.8 miles | 12 | |
| Pondosa | 14.8 miles | 13 | |
| Hot Lake | 15.0 miles | 12 | |
| Medical Springs | 15.5 miles | 13 | |
| Cove | 19.4 miles | 13 | |
| Camp Carson (historical) | 19.9 miles | 10 | |
| La Grande | 22.3 miles | 10 |
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 North Powder | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2350311 | 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 1124835. 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.





