Promise, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Wallowa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97885. The Survey maps it on the Promise quadrangle. It stands 3,592 feet above sea level.

Promise within Wallowa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1955 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Promise quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Wallowa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Promise quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Promise between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 60 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	60
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DOUBLE STRUCK
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SHILOW
4 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Vale District	NATOUT 5
23 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	WILDCAT EIFFEL TOWER
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	UPPER COUGER POND
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	RAY FLAT BREAKS
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	PROMISE CEMETARY
14 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	WILDCAT CAMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wallowa County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Promise: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wallowa 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Grossman (historical)	3.2 miles	10
Eden	4.6 miles	11
Maxville	6.6 miles	11
Troy	8.8 miles	11
Eustis (historical)	9.4 miles	11
Bartlett	10.9 miles	11
Grouse	12.0 miles	11
Flora	13.1 miles	9

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 Promise	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20712473	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 1148011. 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.