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Tollgate, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Milton-Freewater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97886. It stands on Morning Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tollgate quadrangle.

Tollgate within Umatilla County

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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Tollgate between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,181 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 2 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
Natural38
Recreation and ceremony17
Debris and open burning5
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
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 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmatilla National ForestMORNING PARK
7 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePendleton UnitMCINTYRE
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestMORNING CREEK
25 September 2014Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMC FIRE
19 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePendleton UnitWILD WOMAN SPRING
14 September 2007Natural1.5 acresUmatilla National ForestBEAR TRAP
10 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmatilla National ForestMOAT
1 September 1997Smokingunder an acreUmatilla National ForestSUMMER HOME

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tollgate: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mp 22.8 Weston/ElginStonePast Producer
Mp 22.8 Weston/ElginStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tollgate in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 8 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
July 2012HailTollgate-Hail caused damage to vehicles.
May 2006HailTollgate-Hail covered the ground.
April 2001HailTollgate-Dime sized hail was reported at an elevation of 4000 feet.
August 2008HailTollgate-no account filed
August 2007HailTollgate-no account filed
June 2006HailTollgate-no account filed
June 2006HailTollgate-no account filed
June 2005HailTollgate-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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
Bingham Springs7.8 miles10
Gibbon15.5 miles9
Weston17.7 miles8
Milton-Freewater18.8 miles8
Duncan19.2 miles10
Cobb20.2 miles8
Sunnyside20.7 miles8
Crockett20.9 miles8

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 TollgateAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7814400The 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 1116542. 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.