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One of 14 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2018 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Governor Earl W. Snell Aircraft Crash Site
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Snell, Governor Earl W., Aircraft Crash Site - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. T40S, R16E, sec25, Fremont-Winema NF, Lakeview, 97630
- When was it listed? October 2018
- Category. site
- Census division. Lakeview
- National Register reference number. 100003032 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
81 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Governor Earl W. Snell Aircraft Crash Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 94,153 acres in total. 70 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 | 70 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Fremont-Winema National Forest | LITTLE-381 |
| 6 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Lake Unit | ADAMS SPRING |
| 6 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Fremont-Winema National Forest | not named |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | YOCUM 351 |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Lake Unit | BRUSHY |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Fremont-Winema National Forest | WILLOW CAMP |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Fremont-Winema National Forest | BUCKAROO RIM |
| 5 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Lake Unit | HARPING |
Storms near this property
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeview, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2007: 2 wildfire, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Hail | Lakeview | - | A spotter 1N Lakeview reported nickel sized hail, little wind, and lots of lightning. No warning was issued for this thunderstorm. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Lakeview | - | See below. |
| August 1999 | Wildfire | Lakeview | - | See below. |
| July 1999 | Wildfire | Lakeview | - | See below |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003032 in Record Group 79. |
| Lake County | All 14 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- 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.
- 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.