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Summer Lake, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Summer Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97640. The Survey maps it on the Summer Lake quadrangle. It stands 4,229 feet above sea level.

Summer Lake within Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Summer Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,163 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 1 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
Natural25
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLake UnitPICTURE ROCK
3 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake UnitPINE STUMP
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National Forestnot named
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLakeview DistrictSUMMER LAKE
8 August 2011Natural279 acresLakeview DistrictANA FIRE
5 August 2018Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLEWIS 345
27 August 1998Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestGLIDE
19 August 1998Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestRIM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Summer Lake: 9 occurrences, 3 prospects, 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Gold, Sodium, Salt. 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
Mp 66 Fremont HwyStonePast Producer
Mp 66 Fremont HywStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Summer LakeSodiumOccurrence
Summer LakeSaltOccurrence
Gold ProspectGoldOccurrence
Silver LakeGoldPast Producer
Silver LakeGoldProspect
Summer Lake AreaGoldProspect
Unnamed SiteGoldProspect
Ana River SpringGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summer Lake in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 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 2009Thunderstorm WindSummer Lake$5,000A spotter reported 8 inch diameter trees blown down and wind damage to a barn. 0.40 inches of rain fell, and there was no hail.
June 2016HailSummer Lake-A spotter 7NNW Summer Lake reported 1.0 inch diameter hail.
July 2008HailSummer Lake-A local television station received a report from a viewer of golf ball size hail with a thunderstorm early in the day. The exact time could not be confirmed, and the location is approximate. No warnings were in effect.
August 2005Tornado (F0)Summer Lake-Lake County 911 called and relayed a report from a woman in Christmas Valley of several funnel clouds, one of which was touching the ground. The 911 dispatcher passed along her phone number. The woman was called and a tornado was verified. She stated that there were several funnel clouds extending down from a cloud, and one of the funnel clouds was touching the ground with a dust cloud at the point of contact. She estimated the tornado was 3 miles west of Christmas Valley.
May 1998HailSummer 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
Silver Lake17.8 miles9
Christmas Valley19.6 miles9
Paisley22.8 miles12
Chewaucan (historical)25.5 miles12
Fort Rock30.3 miles8
Blaisdell41.2 miles12
Valley Falls42.8 miles11
Quartz Mountain44.9 miles12

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 Summer LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7637356The 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 1150596. 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.