Van, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Drewsey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97904. It stands on Gabe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Van quadrangle.

Van within Harney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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
1968 USGS Van quadrangle1:62500
1978 USGS Stinkingwater Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Van quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Van between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,692 acres in total. 43 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
Natural	43
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	COUGAR
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	GUNBARREL CREEK
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	SCHURTZ
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	VAN GULCH
10 September 1997	Natural	4.0 acres	Malheur National Forest	OR-MAF-2300
10 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	OR-MAF-2296
8 August 2011	Natural	1.7 acres	Malheur National Forest	#10129
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	OR-BFZ-2421

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Frost Mill

Every fire 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
Frost Mill	3.9 miles	12
Trout Creek	14.0 miles	10
Drewsey	20.8 miles	10
Buchanan	24.2 miles	9
Harney	25.0 miles	11
Burns	33.9 miles	10
Indian Village	34.8 miles	10
Hines	36.0 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.

Wikipedia article on Van	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7913078	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 1151720. 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.