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Ukiah, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Pilot Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97880. It stands on Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ukiah quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Ukiah within Umatilla County

Population over time

5 figures

Ukiah fell from 249 to 159 between 1980 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
1980249
1990250+1 (+0%)
2000255+5 (+2%)
2010186-69 (-27%)
2020159-27 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Ukiah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,198 acres in total. 50 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
Natural50
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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 2006Natural2.2 acresPendleton UnitCHAPMAN
9 September 1997Naturalunder an acrePendleton UnitPINE CREEK
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acrePendleton UnitHUGHES FIRE
4 September 2006Natural9.2 acresPendleton UnitRANDALL CANYON
4 September 2006Natural7.5 acresPendleton UnitWILKINS CREEK
4 September 2006Naturalunder an acrePendleton UnitCAMAS
24 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCAMAS CREEK ROAD
23 September 2019Debris and open burning24 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersALBEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Ukiah: 7 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay. 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
Clay PitClayPast Producer
LeverenzStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitClayProducer
Leverenz PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mp 52.1 Pendleton/JdStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mp 52.1 Pendleton/JdSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this place

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ukiah in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 13 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 flood. 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
April 2019FloodUkiah$10,000A levy along Camas Creek in Ukiah was damaged with flooding of several outbuildings on properties in Ukiah, several homes were surrounded with water.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindUkiah$1,000Power line down due to strong wind.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindUkiah$1,000no account filed
July 2022HailUkiah-Hail stones up to the diameter of 1.5 inches was reported near the Drift Fence Campground. The same thunderstorm had also produced 1 inch sized hail in the neighboring Grant county.
May 2020FloodUkiah-The most significant flooding was reported in Pilot Rock along Birch Creek where some homes were flooded. Minor flood was reported along McKay Creek in Pendleton due to outflow from the Dam. Flooding was also reported in and around Ukiah. The Umatilla at Gibbon and Pendleton both reached flood stage cresting at 8.3 and 12.4 feet respectively.
April 2003HailUkiah-The hail also contributed to a truck running off the road into Camas Creek, three miles south of Ukiah. No injuries were reported from the accident.
June 2001HailUkiah-Hail up to the size of nickels covered the ground at the Winom Creek Campground, which is located in the Blue Mountains at an elevation of 5500 feet.
August 2001LightningUkiah-Lightning started a large fire in the Bridge Creek Wilderness area 7 miles south of Ukiah. This fire, which burned over 9000 acres of protected elk habitat, was finally contained on the 22 of August, after having forced several residents from their homes on the west side of Camas Creek. It also briefly threatened the town of Ukiah. State Highway 395, the main artery between Ukiah and John Day, was closed from the 15th to the 23rd due to dense smoke and firefighting efforts.
September 1998Heavy RainUkiah-0.75 inches of rain fell in 20 to 25 minutes.
August 1997HailUkiah-A weather spotter reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 2020HailUkiah-no account filed
June 2016HailUkiah-no account filed
June 2016HailUkiah-no account filed
May 2009HailUkiah-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindUkiah-no account filed
June 2007HailUkiah-no account filed
July 2006HailUkiah-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindUkiah-no account filed
July 2004HailUkiah-no account filed
May 2003HailUkiah-no account filed
August 2000LightningUkiah-no account filed
June 1999HailUkiah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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
Albee (historical)5.6 miles10
Hidaway Springs10.3 miles10
Gurdane13.0 miles7
Lehman Springs14.4 miles10
Nye22.7 miles8
Pilot Rock24.7 miles8
McKay30.3 miles9
Green Meadows34.0 miles10

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 UkiahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q991224The 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 1151630. 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.