Silver Lake, Oregon
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Silver Lake-Fort Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97638. It stands on Bridge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Silver Lake quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,345 feet above sea level.
On record in Silver Lake
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 1 record
Ed Eskelin Ranch Complexlisted 1991
Population over time
2 figuresSilver Lake grew from 149 to 159 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 149 | |
| 2020 | 159 | +10 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Crescent quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Crescent quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Crescent quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Silver Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Crescent quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Crescent quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
33 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Silver Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 14 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 | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | 0623 |
| 27 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | 0621 |
| 21 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | 0610 |
| 19 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Lakeview District | PIRATE DAY |
| 15 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lakeview District | BUCK #1 |
| 15 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Lakeview District | BUCK #2 |
| 12 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | 0595 |
| 10 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Deschutes National Forest | 0592 |
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Silver Lake: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emery Site | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Emery Site | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver Lake in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silver Lake | - | A spotter SSW Silver Lake reported an estimated gust to 74 mph associated with a nearby thunderstorm. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Silver Lake | - | Hail 0.88 inches in diameter reported by a spotter. |
| July 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Silver Lake | - | FOREST SERVICE PERSONNEL REPORTED TWO FUNNEL CLOUDS NEAR SILVER LAKE. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Silver Lake | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Rock | 15.8 miles | 8 | |
| Summer Lake | 17.8 miles | 12 | |
| Christmas Valley | 22.9 miles | 9 | |
| Paisley | 40.0 miles | 12 | |
| Chewaucan (historical) | 42.5 miles | 12 | |
| Blaisdell | 52.8 miles | 12 | |
| Quartz Mountain | 56.9 miles | 12 | |
| Valley Falls | 60.1 miles | 11 |
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 Silver Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3459587 | 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 1126971. 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.





