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Willowcreek, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97918. It stands on Kern Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willowcreek quadrangle. It stands 2,415 feet above sea level.

Willowcreek within Malheur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Willowcreek between 1993 and 2018, burning about 185 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Debris and open burning1
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
13 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use15 acresVale District7TH AVENUE
5 August 1993Natural9.0 acresVale DistrictHOPE FL
25 July 2006Natural2.4 acresVale DistrictMERCURY MINE
8 June 1996Debris and open burning3.0 acresVale DistrictDENNIS
28 June 2006Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictBULLY CREEK FIRE
26 June 2017Natural150 acresVale DistrictDRY GULCH
13 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresVale DistrictVALE RFD 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Malheur County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Willowcreek: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Bully CreekSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bully Creek Community PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Comyford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Comyford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Schaffeld SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schaffeld SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Malheur County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willowcreek in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 flood. 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 2011FloodWillowcreek-ASOS and Radar observations indicated 1.5 inches of rainfall over the area and spotters reported minor flooding.

Every storm recorded in Malheur 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
Dennis2.7 miles12
Jamieson6.1 miles11
Home (historical)6.4 miles12
Dell (historical)7.2 miles11
Warm Springs (historical)8.2 miles11
Vale11.3 miles12
Brogan12.2 miles9
Paris (historical)12.3 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 WillowcreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11003224The 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 1637882. 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.