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Richland, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Eagle Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97870. It lies near Eagle Valley. The Survey maps it on the Richland quadrangle. 165 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,231 feet above sea level.

Richland within Baker County

Population over time

3 figures

Richland grew from 147 to 165 between 2000 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
2000147
2010156+9 (+6%)
2020165+9 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Richland between 1993 and 2020, burning about 54,268 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 August 2016Natural1.6 acresVale DistrictRUTH
3 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreVale DistrictRICHLAND D
29 August 2013Natural77 acresVale DistrictPOWDER RIVER
24 August 2000Natural307 acresVale DistrictIMMIGRANT
13 August 1996Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictRICHLAND
10 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use297 acresVale DistrictDRY GULCH
23 July 2006Natural53,547 acresVale DistrictFOSTER GULCH
11 July 2001Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictPOWDER POP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Richland: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Mp 47.6 Baker/CopperStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Claus Sass PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Richland DepositDiatomiteOccurrenceSedimentary
Richland DepositDiatomiteUnknown
Mp 47.6 Baker/CopperStonePast Producer
Snake RiverStonePast Producer
Snake River PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Baker County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richland in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
June 2010FloodRichland$10,000Baker County Sheriffs office reported 3 feet of water over State Highway 86 near Eagle Creek and a nearby rancher reported 4 feet of water in his fields.
June 2008HailRichland-A thunderstorm produced penny sized hail and estimated 60 MPH winds gusts.
June 2004Flash FloodRichland-Mud slide across Hwy 86....see narrative for Idaho this date.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRichland-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindRichland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baker 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
New Bridge2.4 miles14
Robinette7.4 miles14
Pine7.6 miles14
Halfway8.2 miles14
Jimtown9.5 miles14
Sparta10.8 miles14
Sunset10.9 miles14
Carson11.5 miles14

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 RichlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2739134The 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 1148423. 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.