Owyhee, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Owyhee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97913. The Survey maps it on the Owyhee quadrangle. It stands 2,195 feet above sea level.

Owyhee within Malheur County

On record in Owyhee

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Owyhee Grocerylisted 2025 · 0.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1906 USGS Mitchell Butte quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Owyhee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Vale quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Owyhee between 1995 and 2000, burning about 4,465 acres in total. 3 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	3
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 September 1995	Natural	2,221 acres	Boise District	D LINE
20 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27 acres	Vale District	MITCHELL B
11 August 1996	Natural	2,122 acres	Vale District	BROWN BUTT
4 July 1997	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Vale District	OVERSTREET
24 June 1999	Natural	60 acres	Vale District	EMERALD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Malheur County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Owyhee: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Snake River Placers	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Owyhee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Owyhee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rookstool Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rookstool Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Malheur 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Adrian	3.8 miles	11
Nyssa	6.5 miles	11
Nyssa Heights	7.0 miles	10
Arcadia	9.7 miles	11
Cairo	14.1 miles	10
Vale	16.2 miles	12
Ontario	16.7 miles	16
Paris (historical)	17.5 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 Owyhee	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7115009	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 1136607. 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.