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Wasco, Oregon

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Wasco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97065. The Survey maps it on the Wasco quadrangle. 417 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,281 feet above sea level.

Wasco within Sherman County

On record in Wasco

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Wasco grew from 381 to 417 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
2000381
2010410+29 (+8%)
2020417+7 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wasco in 2007, burning about 15,591 acres in total. None 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
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
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined15,591 acresPrineville District0621

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sherman County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Wasco: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 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
China HollowSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
China HollowSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Spanish Hollow CreekStonePast Producer
Spanish Hollow Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Van Guilder QuarryStonePast Producer
Van Guilder QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sherman 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
Thornberry4.4 miles10
Klondike4.5 miles9
Locust Grove4.8 miles9
Sinks (historical)4.9 miles9
De Moss Springs5.6 miles11
Rufus7.4 miles9
Emigrant Springs (historical)7.5 miles9
Moro7.6 miles8

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 WascoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2483652The 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 1128684. 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.