Waterman, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Mitchell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97750. It stands on Waterman Flat. The Survey maps it on the Frog Hollow quadrangle. It stands 3,947 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Waterman within Wheeler County

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.

1953 USGS Richmond quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Monument quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Frog Hollow quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Waterman (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 344 acres in total. 30 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
Natural	30
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Other causes	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
5 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Prineville District	MOUNTAINCR
18 September 1995	Natural	25 acres	John Day Unit	SOUTH BALDY
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	John Day Unit	WILLOW CREEK
9 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FOPIANO
9 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	CORRAL
9 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	IRON MOUNTAIN
9 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SECTION 11
9 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BLANN MEADOW

Every fire recorded in Wheeler 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
Caleb (historical)	6.7 miles	10
Spoos Mill	8.3 miles	10
Richmond	9.4 miles	10
Waldron (historical)	10.3 miles	12
Antone (historical)	11.0 miles	15
Service Creek	13.8 miles	11
Mitchell	14.4 miles	13
Spray	15.7 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 Waterman (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7974322	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 1161577. 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.