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Summerville, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Elgin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97876. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Summerville quadrangle. 119 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,703 feet above sea level.

Summerville within Union County

On record in Summerville

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

3 figures

Summerville grew from 117 to 119 between 2000 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
2000117
2010135+18 (+15%)
2020119-16 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Summerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 15 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
Natural15
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use25 acresLaGrande DistrictPUMPKIN RIDGE
13 September 2003Debris and open burning45 acresLaGrande DistrictCRAIG LOOP
8 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLaGrande DistrictCOFFIN #1
7 August 2008Naturalunder an acreLaGrande DistrictNICE
5 August 2011Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestNINE MILE
30 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWIRE FIRE
3 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreLaGrande DistrictSMITH CREEK
29 August 2002Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestGRANDVIEW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Summerville: 17 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal, Stone. 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
LoughStonePast Producer
Unnamed Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Wagner WellGeothermalProducer
West QuarryStonePast Producer
Elgin Rock ProductionStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lough PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
West QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Elgin Rock ProductionSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerville in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2016: 5 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSummerville$100,000Witnesses described a sudden microburst damaged two locations west of Summerville. A large tree crashed through one house, while the residents were not at home. Another downed tree took out a power line and damaged the roof.
May 2016HailSummerville-no account filed
July 2016HailSummerville-no account filed
May 2015HailSummerville-no account filed
June 2015HailSummerville-no account filed
August 2013HailSummerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Imbler2.9 miles13
Alicel5.9 miles13
Indian Valley (historical)6.6 miles10
Elgin7.0 miles10
Island City10.4 miles10
Elk Flat (historical)11.2 miles10
La Grande12.2 miles10
Perry13.0 miles10

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 SummervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2446832The 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 1150602. 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.