Trail Fork, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Condon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97823. It lies near Landers Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Salmon Fork quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Trail Fork within Gilliam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1916 USGS Condon quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Salmon Fork quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Condon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Trail Fork (historical) between 1994 and 2018, burning about 8,156 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 August 1994	Natural	1,000 acres	John Day Unit	BADGER
31 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,800 acres	Prineville District	0865
25 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	LOST VALLEY
17 August 2018	Natural	5,056 acres	Prineville District	LONE ROCK
11 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	STEAMBOAT ROCK
24 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	FIR HOLLOW
17 November 2008	Debris and open burning	300 acres	John Day Unit	THIRTY MILE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilliam 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
Thirtymile	6.6 miles	12
Mayville	6.8 miles	11
Lonerock	9.8 miles	9
Condon	11.0 miles	12
Igo (historical)	15.3 miles	11
Alville (historical)	19.4 miles	11
Clem	23.1 miles	11
Mikkalo	26.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1160542. 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.