BlockPrinceton, Oregon
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Diamond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97721. It lies near Hatt Butte. The Survey maps it on the Adobe Flat quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Burns quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Burns quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Burns quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Adobe Flat quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Malheur Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Princeton (historical) between 1996 and 2019, burning about 679 acres in total. 6 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 | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 24 acres | Burns District | ATWOOD |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | 3.5 acres | Malheur National Wildlife Refuge | NARROWS |
| 23 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Burns District | ADOBE |
| 12 September 2001 | Natural | 30 acres | Burns District | DARRELS |
| 6 August 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 213 acres | Burns District | BYE BYE BIRDIE |
| 3 August 1997 | Natural | 10 acres | Burns District | DAVIES |
| 16 August 2006 | Natural | 7.2 acres | Burns District | 2475 |
| 13 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Burns District | BECKLEY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1161693. 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.