Trout Creek, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Burns census division. It stands on Trout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trout Creek quadrangle. It stands 4,544 feet above sea level.

Trout Creek within Harney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1955 USGS Burns quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Burns quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Burns quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Calamity Butte quadrangle1:62500
1978 USGS Stinkingwater Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Trout Creek quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Trout Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Trout Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 642 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	63
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
5 September 2003	Natural	4.0 acres	John Day Unit	SILVIES RIVER
24 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Malheur National Forest	OR-MAF-2352
23 September 1997	Smoking	8.0 acres	John Day Unit	HELL 'N' GONE
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Burns District	ROPER SPRG
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	not named
15 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	#3275
15 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	#3278
15 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	WHERE IS IT

Every fire recorded in Harney 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 Trout Creek: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Stone, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Caledonia	Gold	Past Producer
Seneca Rock Products	Stone	Past Producer
Seneca Rock Products	Stone	Producer
Silver Blossom Prospect	Manganese	Occurrence
Silver Blossom Prospect	Manganese	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Harney 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
Van	14.0 miles	9
Frost Mill	17.5 miles	12
Harney	20.6 miles	11
Burns	24.3 miles	10
Indian Village	24.7 miles	10
Buchanan	25.7 miles	9
Hines	26.1 miles	10
Drewsey	31.0 miles	10

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 Q114428954

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 1151431. 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.