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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.

Silver Lake within Lake County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Silver 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.

YearPeople Change
2010149
2020159+10 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

33 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
28 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0623
27 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0621
21 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0610
19 September 2008Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictPIRATE DAY
15 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLakeview DistrictBUCK #1
15 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLakeview DistrictBUCK #2
12 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0595
10 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0592

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Emery SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Emery SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2012Thunderstorm WindSilver Lake-A spotter SSW Silver Lake reported an estimated gust to 74 mph associated with a nearby thunderstorm.
July 2010HailSilver Lake-Hail 0.88 inches in diameter reported by a spotter.
July 1997Funnel CloudSilver Lake-FOREST SERVICE PERSONNEL REPORTED TWO FUNNEL CLOUDS NEAR SILVER LAKE.
July 1998Flash FloodSilver Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Fort Rock15.8 miles8
Summer Lake17.8 miles12
Christmas Valley22.9 miles9
Paisley40.0 miles12
Chewaucan (historical)42.5 miles12
Blaisdell52.8 miles12
Quartz Mountain56.9 miles12
Valley Falls60.1 miles11

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459587The 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.