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Wallowa, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wallowa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97885. It stands on Whisky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wallowa quadrangle. 796 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,950 feet above sea level.

Wallowa within Wallowa County

On record in Wallowa

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Wallowa fell from 869 to 796 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
2000869
2010808-61 (-7%)
2020796-12 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Wallowa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 20 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
Natural20
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHOT FENCE
5 August 2015Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSPOTTY
5 August 2000Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitLOWER DIAMOND FIRE
31 August 2001Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitROCK CREEK JUNIPER
21 August 1994Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWallowa UnitGOEBEL SPOT
21 August 1993Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitCORRAL
2 August 1994Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitUPPER ELK FLATS
19 August 2020Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitPONDO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wallowa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wallowa: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Stones Sand & GravelStonePast Producer
Stones Sand & GravelStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Minam-Spring CreekSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Minam-Spring Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wallowa County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallowa in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 tornado. 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
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Wallowa$100,000Eyewitnesses saw the cover being ripped off the sewer ponds and rotating debris being blown into the air across the Wallowa Rover.
April 2019FloodWallowa$50,000Field and roadway flooding was seen along the Grande Ronde River and numerous other small streams with significant snowmelt and heavy rain.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWallowa$1,000Strong winds from a thunderstorm knocked down several trees in Wallowa. Hail also fell with this storm.
August 2009HailWallowa-In additon, heavy rain fell for almost 1 hour.
September 2002WildfireWallowa-Around 200 firefighters were assigned to the Anniversary fire, which was sparked by lightning on an unknown date near the bottom of Big Canyon. Three engines, one dozer, four air tankers, one helicopter, and two water tenders were assigned to this fire, which burned 290 acres.
July 2012HailWallowa-no account filed
July 2012HailWallowa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wallowa 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
Evans7.3 miles11
Lostine7.7 miles10
Minam10.9 miles10
Maxville12.2 miles11
Eustis (historical)14.0 miles11
Grossman (historical)16.5 miles10
Enterprise16.5 miles10
Alder (historical)17.1 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 WallowaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2164394The 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 1151858. 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.