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Ripplebrook, Oregon

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Estacada census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97023. It lies near Nowhere Meadow. The Survey maps it on the Fish Creek Mountain quadrangle. It stands 1,588 feet above sea level.

Ripplebrook within Clackamas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Ripplebrook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 138,094 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 4 were 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
Recreation and ceremony48
Natural22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking10
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestHARRIET
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined138,054 acresMt. Hood National ForestRIVERSIDE
8 September 2001Smokingunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestHIDEAWAY
8 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestWHALE II
7 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestTIMBER
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestTWO RIVERS
6 September 1992Smokingunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestRIVERSIDE
5 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestSHELLROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clackamas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 65 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Ripplebrook: 54 past producers, 10 producers, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mercury, Geothermal. 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
Austin Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
KigginsMercury, MolybdenumPast Producer1924
Kiggins MineMercury, MolybdenumPast Producer1923, 1932
NisbetMercury, ZeolitesPast Producer1924
Ames - BancroftMercuryPast Producer
Ames-Bancroft GrouppMercuryPast Producer
Nisbet MineMercuryPast Producer1923, 1932
U S Forest Service 064Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
U S Forest Service 069Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
U S Forest Service 070Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Clackamas 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
Three Lynx3.4 miles20
Bissell16.3 miles18
Dodge16.5 miles18
Welches17.5 miles16
George17.7 miles18
Garfield (historical)18.3 miles25
Rhododendron18.4 miles16
Zigzag18.8 miles16

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 RipplebrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7335728The 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 1134277. 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.