Plush, Oregon
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Warner Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97637. The Survey maps it on the Plush quadrangle. 39 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,511 feet above sea level.
On record in Plush
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
Population over time
2 figuresPlush fell from 57 to 39 between 2010 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 57 | |
| 2020 | 39 | -18 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Adel quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Adel quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Adel quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Adel quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Plush quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1994 USGS Adel quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Plush between 1996 and 2020, burning about 472 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 238 acres | Lakeview District | HART LAKE |
| 2 August 2007 | Natural | 1.1 acres | Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge | ALKALAI |
| 15 August 2003 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Lakeview District | POWERLINE |
| 8 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lakeview District | PLUSH |
| 7 July 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Lakeview District | PRIDAY |
| 16 July 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 225 acres | Lakeview District | WETLANDS |
| 10 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Lakeview District | SNYDER CREEK |
| 2 June 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge | GOAT |
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Plush: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bansco Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Bansco Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Fitzgerald Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Fitzgerald Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plush in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Hail | Plush | - | Hail reported at the Plush General Store. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adel | 16.2 miles | 9 | |
| Valley Falls | 20.7 miles | 11 | |
| Lakeview | 28.0 miles | 10 | |
| Hot Springs (historical) | 30.4 miles | 11 | |
| Five Corners | 32.1 miles | 10 | |
| New Pine Creek | 35.6 miles | 22 | |
| Chewaucan (historical) | 37.1 miles | 12 | |
| West Side | 37.4 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 Plush | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3459510 | 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 1136634. 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.






