Rockford, Oregon

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Hood River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97031. It stands on Ferguson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hood River quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Rockford within Hood River County

On record in Rockford

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Miles B. and Eleanor Potter Houselisted 1992 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1926 USGS Hood River quadrangle1:125000
1929 USGS Hood River quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Hood River quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Hood River NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hood River quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Hood River quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Hood River quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

229 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Rockford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 427 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning	52
Railroad operations and maintenance	35
Recreation and ceremony	27
Smoking	23
Fireworks	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13
Natural	11
Arson/incendiarism	5
Other causes	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	DUKE POINT
7 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	The Dalles Unit	MOSIER EAST
6 September 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	KOBERG
4 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	I84 MP 65
3 September 2001	Smoking	2.0 acres	The Dalles Unit	REDWOOD ROAD
29 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hood River County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Rockford: 28 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Klickitat Co. Pits	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Alameda Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Alameda Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dickey Farm Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hanel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Old Dalles Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Topsoil Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Underwood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hood River 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
Oak Grove	2.1 miles	17
Hood River	2.5 miles	17
Pine Grove	2.8 miles	17
Odell	3.6 miles	17
Lenz	3.8 miles	17
Dee	7.3 miles	15
Mount Hood	9.8 miles	16
Parkdale	11.2 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q114018426

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 1136698. 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.