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Troy, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Flora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97828. It stands on Wenaha River. The Survey maps it on the Troy quadrangle. It stands 1,624 feet above sea level.

Troy within Wallowa County

On record in Troy

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Troy between 1992 and 2019, burning about 170 acres in total. 53 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
Natural53
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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 2014Equipment and vehicle use16 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBUGLING
9 September 1998Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitELK PASTURE
6 September 2004Other causesunder an acreWallowa UnitBLACK CAT
4 September 2006Natural2.5 acresWallowa UnitDAY RIDGE
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use16 acresWallowa UnitBARLETT BENCH
28 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWallowa UnitMALLORY LANE
2 September 2009Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitROTORTILL
14 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWallowa UnitWILDCAT CAMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wallowa 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 Troy: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wallowa County

Storms near this place

7 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 4 flood, 3 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
February 2020FloodTroy$129,000Flood stage is 10.0 feet. The river rose above flood stage on February 7, at 125 am, crested at 11.73 feet on February 7, 1015 am, then fell below flood stage on February 8, at 430am. There was moderate flooding along the Grande Ronde River from Troy downstream to the Washington border. Redmond Grade road as well as Troy road and several other county roads were damaged. Damage is estimated at 129, 591 dollars.
March 2017FloodTroy-The Grande Ronde river at Troy (flood stage 10.0 feet) crested at 11.5 feet at 1000 on March 16, fell below flood stage and then rose again to 11.7 feet at 0100 on March 19th. River went below flood stage around 1400 on March 20th.
June 2011HailTroy-Hail was followed by heavy rainfall.
June 2011HailTroy-Hail ranged from pea size up to quarter size. Also, .60 inch of rainfall in about 20 minutes and wind gusts to 30 mph.
January 2011FloodTroy-Only minor flooding observed. The river at Troy crested at 10.3 which was .3 above flood stage.
June 2010FloodTroy-The Grande Ronde River at Troy crested 10 pm on June 4 at 10.8 feet. Flood stage is 10.0 feet.
June 2011HailTroy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wallowa 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
Bartlett2.6 miles11
Grouse3.3 miles11
Eden6.2 miles11
Flora8.2 miles9
Promise8.8 miles10
Grossman (historical)11.9 miles10
Paradise12.2 miles10
Maxville14.9 miles11

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 TroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709286The 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 1136841. 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.