Rutledge, Oregon

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Moro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97029. The Survey maps it on the Rosebush quadrangle. It stands 2,425 feet above sea level.

Rutledge within Sherman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Rosebush quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Condon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Rutledge between 2001 and 2018, burning about 55,330 acres in total. 4 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
22 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55 acres	Prineville District	0447
18 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	110 acres	Prineville District	MARLIN SPR
13 July 2014	Natural	13,161 acres	Prineville District	0290 JACK KNIFE
1 July 2008	Natural	20,115 acres	Prineville District	0250 JACK KNIFE
8 June 2016	Natural	6,300 acres	Prineville District	0162 CURRIE CANYON
22 June 2018	Natural	15,589 acres	Prineville District	JACK KNIFE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Boardman (historical)

Every fire recorded in Sherman County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rutledge: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
	Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Sherman 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
Boardman (historical)	4.6 miles	8
Grass Valley	7.5 miles	8
Erskine	9.8 miles	9
Kent	10.2 miles	8
Monkland	10.3 miles	8
Moro	11.0 miles	8
De Moss Springs	12.1 miles	11
Klondike	17.0 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.

Wikidata item Q27988027

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 1126380. 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.