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Tygh Valley, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Dufur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97063. It lies near Butler Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tygh Valley quadrangle. 236 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,142 feet above sea level.

Tygh Valley within Wasco County

Population over time

3 figures

Tygh Valley grew from 224 to 236 between 2000 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
2000224
2010206-18 (-8%)
2020236+30 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Tygh Valley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,980 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2019Natural19 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTOOTER CREEK
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePrineville District1084
25 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreThe Dalles UnitBADGER CREEK ROAD
14 September 1999Other causes12 acresThe Dalles UnitSHADY BROOK
12 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreThe Dalles UnitDIAMOND LAKE
1 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use5.5 acresThe Dalles UnitWAMIC MARKET ROAD
5 August 2003Naturalunder an acrePrineville District737
26 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreThe Dalles UnitSHADY BROOK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wasco County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Tygh Valley: 13 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Tygh Valley Dredge and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tygh Valley Dredge and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
JustesenStonePast Producer
Justesen PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
MagillStonePast Producer
Magill PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Wasco 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
Wamic5.3 miles15
Pine Hollow6.4 miles15
Kingsley6.6 miles13
Maupin7.0 miles14
East Maupin7.3 miles14
Friend (historical)8.5 miles14
Wapinitia10.2 miles13
Sportsmans Park12.0 miles13

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 Tygh ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2295749The 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 1136854. 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.