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Quartz Mountain, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Lakeview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97630. It stands on Quartz Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Quartz Valley quadrangle.

Quartz Mountain within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Quartz Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,650 acres in total. 84 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
Natural84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestHEART-376
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestSPATTER DOCK
28 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestRAZOR
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National Forestnot named
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National Forestnot named
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National Forestnot named
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLake UnitBILL
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreLake UnitFUDD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Quartz Mountain: 6 past producers, 6 prospects, 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Gold, 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
Opalite MineMercury, SilicaProspect
Quartz Mountain Gold DepositMercury, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Antimony, ArsenicProspectChalcopyrite, Cinnabar, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite
Quartz MtnGold, MercuryOccurrence
Quarry MountainStonePast Producer
Quarry MountainStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quartz MountainStonePast Producer
Quartz Mountain PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Eighth Drilling SeriesGoldPast Producer
Eighth Drilling SeriesGoldProspect
Quartz MountainGoldPast Producer

Every working 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
Blaisdell4.1 miles12
Drews Valley (historical)9.2 miles12
Vistillas (historical)11.3 miles12
Yocum (historical)20.8 miles12
Five Corners22.3 miles10
West Side22.3 miles10
Lakeview26.5 miles10
Chewaucan (historical)27.9 miles12

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 Quartz MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q131904536The 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 1136663. 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.