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Sunriver, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sisters-Millican census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97707. The Survey maps it on the Benham Falls quadrangle. 2,023 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,164 feet above sea level.

Sunriver within Deschutes County

Population over time

2 figures

Sunriver grew from 1,393 to 2,023 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
20101,393
20202,023+630 (+45%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

336 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Sunriver between 1992 and 2020, burning about 467 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 12 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
Recreation and ceremony106
Natural60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Smoking36
Debris and open burning32
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Fireworks5
Other causes4
Firearms and explosives use1

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 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forestnot named
7 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHERMOSA 0866
6 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0849 NW
6 September 2012Smokingunder an acreDeschutes National Forest0522
6 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest803
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLAVA FIRE 0912
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCOIDC 0770
5 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDeschutes National Forest796

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Deschutes County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Sunriver: 6 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice. 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
Abbott Butte PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Abbott Butte PitPumiceProducer
Sunriver PropertiesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sunriver Properties PitPumiceProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sunriver PropertiesSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sunriver PropertiesSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Deschutes County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunriver in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 6 hail, 1 flood. 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
May 2023HailSunriver-Broadcast media partner reported estimated 1 inch hail fell 6 miles SW of Deschutes River Woods at 1738 PDT. A Public report of hail up to 0.88 inches fell 5 miles NNE of Three Rivers.
May 2020HailSunriver-Also trees down in Sunriver.
July 2006HailSunriver-At Lava Lake Resort.
July 2001FloodSunriver-A heavy slow moving thunderstorm dumped one inch of rain in one hour over Sunriver. Many roads became awash when runoff overwhelmed the town's drainage ditches.
June 2006HailSunriver-no account filed
August 2006HailSunriver-no account filed
June 2005HailSunriver-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deschutes 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
Three Rivers4.7 miles15
Deschutes River Woods8.6 miles17
Bend13.7 miles19
La Pine15.1 miles16
Tumalo19.2 miles16
Elk Lake20.6 miles18
Deschutes21.2 miles16
Alfalfa26.0 miles15

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 SunriverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459533The 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 1167062. 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.