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West Side, Oregon

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Lakeview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97630. The Survey maps it on the West Side quadrangle. It stands 4,774 feet above sea level.

West Side within Lake County

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

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of West Side between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony2
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
28 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National Forestnot named
29 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestSOUTH CANAL
23 August 1999Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestMILL SPRINGS
22 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestHORSESHOE
18 August 1999Naturalunder an acreLake UnitBOUNDARY #268
18 August 1992Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National Forestnot named
13 August 1992Naturalunder an acreLake UnitPARALLEL
13 August 1992Naturalunder an acreLake UnitWILLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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 West Side: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
RobertsStonePast Producer
Roberts PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stockburger #1 Oil TestGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Side in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 hail. 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 2015HailWest Side-A spotter 8 WSW Lakeview reported large hail with a thunderstorm. The hail was mostly pea-sized but some were quarter-size.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Five Corners5.9 miles10
Hot Springs (historical)9.3 miles11
Lakeview9.4 miles10
Drews Valley (historical)13.2 miles12
New Pine Creek13.3 miles22
Vistillas (historical)14.0 miles12
Yocum (historical)16.6 miles12
Quartz Mountain22.3 miles12

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 West SideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988015The 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 1128894. 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.