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Tumalo, Oregon

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Tumalo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97703. It lies near Laidlaw Butte. The Survey maps it on the Tumalo quadrangle. 558 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,189 feet above sea level.

Tumalo within Deschutes County

Population over time

2 figures

Tumalo grew from 488 to 558 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010488
2020558+70 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Tumalo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. 45 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
Natural45
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Smoking2

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
3 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBend Fire Department0831 RS
23 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSisters UnitMT. WASHINGTON
22 September 2010Naturalunder an acrePrineville District774 COUCH MARKET
15 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSisters UnitCOLUMBIA SOUTHERN
11 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreBend Fire Department0897 BENN
1 September 2020Other causesunder an acreBend Fire Department0825 NW
8 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersROCK SPRINGS RD 0423
7 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePrineville District0612

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Deschutes County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 60 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Tumalo: 34 past producers, 25 producers, 1 unknown. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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-Pumice PitSand and Gravel, Construction, PumicePast Producer
Deschutes Ready MixStonePast Producer
Deschutes Ready Mix PitStoneProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Cinder PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Long ButteStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wil-Ho Contruction CoStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cascade PitPumiceProducer
Cascade Pit/Graystone Corp.#1PumicePast Producer

Every working recorded in Deschutes County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tumalo in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 7 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2001LightningTumalo$100,000Lightning from a thunderstorm during the afternoon of the 19th sparked a fire that later destroyed a house and its contents.
July 2019FloodTumalo$6,000Media reported that mud and water entered the back of several businesses in Tumalo due to localized very heavy rainfall.
August 2019HailTumalo-Hail covered the roadway with up to 3 inches of hail depth in some areas. Largest stone was the size of a quarter.
June 2008HailTumalo-Large hail accompanied by heavy rainfall.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTumalo-Thunderstorm winds downed tree across Gift Road near Highway 97.
August 1999FloodTumalo-Heavy rain flooded an intersection to a depth of 12 inches on Highway 20 south of Tumalo
June 1998HailTumalo-Spotters in the Tumalo area reported one inch hail and wind gusts to 30 mph.
September 1997Tornado (F0)Tumalo-A tornado briefly touched down in the Eagle Crest Resort along Cline Falls Highway north of Bend. Some juniper trees were blown down, fences rolled up, and about 10 acres of hay were ripped up.
August 2019HailTumalo-no account filed
August 2013HailTumalo-no account filed
June 2008HailTumalo-no account filed
June 2005HailTumalo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deschutes 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
Deschutes4.0 miles16
Bend6.4 miles19
Cline Falls (historical)9.4 miles16
Deschutes River Woods11.0 miles17
Cloverdale11.7 miles17
Redmond11.9 miles16
Lower Bridge (historical)14.6 miles16
Sisters15.1 miles15

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 TumaloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7852476The 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 1128291. 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.