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Pleasant Valley, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Baker City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97814. It stands on Baiseley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Encina quadrangle. It stands 3,757 feet above sea level.

Pleasant Valley within Baker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,166 acres in total. 21 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
Natural21
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictBLUE SPG
7 September 1998Natural2,600 acresVale DistrictLOW CREEK
5 September 2006Natural4,400 acresVale DistrictIRON MTN
17 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBaker UnitALDER CREEK
12 September 2001Natural3.0 acresVale DistrictMP 313
10 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVale DistrictPLEASANT V
1 September 2007Natural11 acresVale DistrictHOLMAN
1 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use7.3 acresBaker UnitOXMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 74 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 74 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley: 27 past producers, 20 occurrences, 20 prospects, 4 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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
Black Caps Lode ClaimGold, ManganeseOccurrenceManganite
Foster R.S. ClaimsDiatomiteProspect
Gold OccurrenceGold, SilverOccurrence
Nitzlander RanchGold, Copper, ManganeseOccurrence
Alder Creek AsbestosAsbestosUnknown
Alder Creek Asbestos OccurrenceAsbestosOccurrence
Carroll B.Silver, GoldOccurrence
Interstate Route 80n Gravel PitStonePast ProducerSedimentary
Mp 318.4 Old Oregon TrStonePast Producer
Pleasant Valley TuffStone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Baker 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
Encina3.4 miles17
Durkee10.9 miles14
Baker City12.8 miles15
Clarksville12.9 miles10
China Town13.0 miles10
Estes (historical)13.8 miles15
Keating13.9 miles14
Bridgeport14.4 miles10

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 Pleasant ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7204030The 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 1125477. 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.