Three Forks, Oregon

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Seneca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97825. The Survey maps it on the Wolf Mountain quadrangle. It stands 4,370 feet above sea level.

Three Forks within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1932 USGS Dayville quadrangle1:125000
1936 USGS Dayville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Wolf Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Dayville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Wolf Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Three Forks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20,411 acres in total. 114 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
Natural	114
Recreation and ceremony	12
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Prineville District	0867 WHOS IS IT
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Prineville District	0870 WHOS IS IT 2
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Ochoco National Forest	0861
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Ochoco National Forest	0860
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Ochoco National Forest	0857
3 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Ochoco National Forest	703
3 September 1995	Natural	1.0 acres	Ochoco National Forest	692
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Ochoco National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Beech Creek

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dayville	13.7 miles	15
Izee	19.7 miles	12
Courtrock	28.3 miles	12
Mount Vernon	28.8 miles	14
Kimberly	32.9 miles	11
Beech Creek	34.4 miles	13
Hamilton	35.8 miles	12
Fox	36.0 miles	13

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.

Wikidata item Q112311625

The 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 1151165. 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.