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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.

Plush within Lake County

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 figures

Plush 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.

YearPeople Change
201057
202039-18 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

10 since 1996

Regional 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 August 2015Recreation and ceremony238 acresLakeview DistrictHART LAKE
2 August 2007Natural1.1 acresHart Mountain National Antelope RefugeALKALAI
15 August 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreLakeview DistrictPOWERLINE
8 July 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreLakeview DistrictPLUSH
7 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresLakeview DistrictPRIDAY
16 July 2014Equipment and vehicle use225 acresLakeview DistrictWETLANDS
10 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLakeview DistrictSNYDER CREEK
2 June 2007Naturalunder an acreHart Mountain National Antelope RefugeGOAT

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bansco QuarryStonePast Producer
Bansco QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fitzgerald PitStonePast Producer
Fitzgerald PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010HailPlush-Hail reported at the Plush General Store.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Adel16.2 miles9
Valley Falls20.7 miles11
Lakeview28.0 miles10
Hot Springs (historical)30.4 miles11
Five Corners32.1 miles10
New Pine Creek35.6 miles22
Chewaucan (historical)37.1 miles12
West Side37.4 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 PlushAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459510The 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.