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Susanville, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Prairie City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97817. It stands on North Fork Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Susanville quadrangle. It stands 3,849 feet above sea level.

Susanville within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Susanville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,925 acres in total. 104 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
Natural104
Recreation and ceremony11
Debris and open burning5
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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 2019Naturalunder an acreMalheur National Forest313 OR-MAF-19313
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMalheur National Forest310 OR-MAF-19310
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMalheur National Forest276 OR-MAF-19276
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreMalheur National Forest13416
5 September 2006Natural1.5 acresMalheur National ForestOR-MAF-199
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreMalheur National Forest13398
4 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMalheur National ForestOR-MAF-2010-10315
4 September 2006Naturalunder an acreMalheur National ForestOR-MAF-194

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 73 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 73 workings within 5 miles of Susanville: 24 past producers, 23 occurrences, 13 prospects, 8 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Mercury, Zinc, Lead. 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
Badger GroupGold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, ArsenicPast ProducerVein
Badger GroupGold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, ArsenicPast Producer
Big Creek QuarryStonePast Producer
Big Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Butler ClaimsAntimony, SilverUnknown
ChattanoogaGold, Zinc, Copper, Arsenic, LeadProducerVein
ChattanoogaGold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, ArsenicPast Producer
Compton MineGold, Platinum, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Arsenic, LeadProducerGalena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Compton MineGold, Arsenic, Zinc, Silver, PGE, Lead, CopperProspect
Copper ProspectGold, Zinc, Lead, CopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Galena1.7 miles12
Range15.8 miles13
Robinsonville15.9 miles14
Bates16.8 miles12
Long Creek17.0 miles13
Austin17.0 miles14
Prairie City17.7 miles14
Caverhill (historical)18.2 miles13

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 SusanvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7648827The 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 1150711. 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.