Voltage, Oregon

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Diamond census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97721. The Survey maps it on the Malheur Lake West quadrangle. It stands 4,111 feet above sea level.

Voltage within Harney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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
1959 USGS Lawen quadrangle1:62500
1978 USGS Malheur Lake quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Malheur Lake West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Voltage between 1993 and 2020, burning about 11,174 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 2 were 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	8
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
27 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	262 acres	Burns District	N VOLTAGE
25 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	148 acres	Malheur National Wildlife Refuge	TULE
7 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Burns District	WINDMILL
29 August 2017	Natural	18 acres	Burns District	WINDMILL
28 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Malheur National Wildlife Refuge	BONE YARD
27 August 2002	Natural	12 acres	Malheur National Wildlife Refuge	GRAVY
12 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Malheur National Wildlife Refuge	SODHOUSE
12 August 2013	Natural	7,500 acres	Mesa Verde National Park	LAVA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Narrows

Every fire recorded in Harney County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Voltage: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sodhouse Spring	Geothermal	Occurrence

Every working 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
Narrows	8.3 miles	8
New Princeton	12.0 miles	9
Princeton (historical)	12.2 miles	8
Lawen	12.5 miles	8
Crane	16.1 miles	9
Diamond	18.7 miles	7
Hines	25.4 miles	10
Burns	26.0 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 Voltage	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7940724	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 1136872. 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.