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Toketee Falls, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the North Umpqua census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97447. It sits by Flatiron Point. The Survey maps it on the Toketee Falls quadrangle. It stands 2,097 feet above sea level.

Toketee Falls within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Toketee Falls between 1992 and 2018, burning about 112 acres in total. 68 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
Natural68
Recreation and ceremony34
Debris and open burning5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
9 September 2011Naturalunder an acreUmpqua National ForestHILL
8 September 2011Naturalunder an acreUmpqua National ForestPIG IRON MT
8 September 2011Naturalunder an acreUmpqua National ForestLM2
8 September 2011Naturalunder an acreUmpqua National ForestBRUSH
8 September 2011Naturalunder an acreUmpqua National ForestYELLOW JACKET
8 September 2011Naturalunder an acreUmpqua National ForestSLIDE
8 September 1993Naturalunder an acreUmpqua National Forestnot named
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmpqua National ForestCLEARWATER 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Toketee Falls: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Beryllium, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal. 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
Camas Creek PitStonePast Producer
Camas Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Umpqua Warm SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
GlucinumBerylliumOccurrence
Glucinum GroupBerylliumProspect

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toketee Falls in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
June 2012HailToketee Falls-This warning was issued based on radar reports. A threshold VIL density for 1 inch hail was determined with ground truth earlier in the day and this warning was issued based on radar returns exceeding that threshold. Therefore it is assumed that this storm produced 1 inch or larger hail at some point in its lifespan.
July 2001Flash FloodToketee Falls-See below.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Clearwater1.8 miles14
Steamboat15.8 miles12
Diamond Lake17.8 miles15
North Umpqua Village26.6 miles11
Hoaglin (historical)29.8 miles17
Idleyld Park30.6 miles17
Peel30.9 miles17
Rockland (historical)32.9 miles17

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 Q114178006The 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 1151299. 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.