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Paulina, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Crooked River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97751. It lies near X X Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Paulina quadrangle. It stands 3,688 feet above sea level.

Paulina within Crook County

On record in Paulina

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Paulina between 1995 and 2011, burning about 269 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
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
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictSEVERANCE
9 August 2001Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictWAR CLUB
9 August 2001Natural10 acresPrineville DistrictPAULINA
10 August 1999Natural221 acresPrineville DistrictBIRD SONG
6 July 2007Natural1.0 acresPrineville District0403
6 July 1995Naturalunder an acreMalheur National Forestnot named
30 July 2011Natural6.4 acresPrineville District0299
19 July 1995Naturalunder an acreMalheur National Forestnot named

Every fire recorded in Crook County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Paulina: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
CongletonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Congleton PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Crook County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paulina in 4 storm reports in 2004: 2 flash flood, 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 2004Flash FloodPaulina-no account filed
August 2004HailPaulina-no account filed
June 2004HailPaulina-no account filed
June 2004Flash FloodPaulina-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crook 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
Suplee15.8 miles14
Post28.0 miles11
Roberts38.4 miles11
Juniper Canyon43.9 miles9
Prineville47.6 miles10
Powell Butte56.5 miles16
Forest Crossing61.1 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 PaulinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459642The 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 1147497. 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.