Washington Gulch Placers

Past Producer in Baker county in Oregon, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102962
MRDS ID M015682
Record type Site
Current site name Washington Gulch Placers
Related records 10176969

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.91076, 44.76458 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Baker(county)

Oregon(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wingville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Baker City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Powder(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Powder(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management OR)

Bureau of Land Management OR BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Oregon Baker

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Willamette 009S 039E 22 E OF E Oregon

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Baker

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W.A., 1901, GOLD BELT OF THE BLUE MTNS OF OREGON, USGS ANN. REPORT 2, P. 653

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ONE OF THE EARLIEST PLACERS IN NORTHEASTERN OREGON, THE BULK OF VALUES REMOVED PRIOR TO 1870. THE PLACER GROUNDS HAVE BEEN SPORADICALLY REWORKED SINCE THEN. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1979 Ferns, Mark L. (Brooks, Howard C.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Gray, Jerry J. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.