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Simnasho, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Warm Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97761. The Survey maps it on the Simnasho quadrangle. It stands 2,411 feet above sea level.

Simnasho within Wasco County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Simnasho between 1992 and 2019, burning about 174,301 acres in total. 51 started naturally. 11 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
Natural51
Fireworks13
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWarm Springs AgencyANOTHER ISLAND FIRE
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWarm Springs AgencyISLAND
30 September 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWarm Springs AgencySIMNASHO WAY
30 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWarm Springs AgencyOUTHOUSE
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWarm Springs AgencySIMNASHOBT
27 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWarm Springs AgencySCHOLISHED
25 September 1998Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWarm Springs AgencyBEAVER CRK
23 September 2009Recreation and ceremony9.1 acresWarm Springs AgencyISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wasco County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Simnasho: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Perlite, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Indian Candy Stone QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Indian Candy Stone QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
SimnashoPerliteOccurrence
Simnasho Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Wasco County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Simnasho in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 1 wildfire, 1 hail. 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
June 2020HailSimnasho-no account filed
July 1998WildfireSimnasho-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wasco 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
Pine Grove9.4 miles13
Wapinitia10.9 miles13
Dant13.3 miles12
Sportsmans Park17.2 miles13
Wamic18.1 miles15
Pine Hollow18.9 miles15
Criterion (historical)19.3 miles8
Maupin19.9 miles14

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 SimnashoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20712182The 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 1126986. 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.