Black Butte Ranch, Oregon

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Black Butte Ranch, Oregon
settlement_type = unincorporated private resort
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = Oregon
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Deschutes
timezone = Pacific
utc_offset = -8
timezone_DST = Pacific
utc_offset_DST = -7
latd = 44 |latm = 22 |lats = 38 |latNS = N
longd = 121 |longm = 39 |longs = 13 |longEW = W
elevation_m = 1021
elevation_ft = 3350
website = http://www.blackbutteranch.com/
postal_code_type = ZIP code
postal_code = 97759
area_code = 541
blank_name = FIPS code
blank_info = 41-06650GR|2
blank1_name = GNIS feature ID
blank1_info = 1138180GR|3
footnotes =

Black Butte Ranch is an unincorporated private resort community in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is located in the Cascade Range, eight miles northwest of Sisters. The community of Black Butte Ranch was developed starting in 1970 by a subsidiary of Brooks Scanlon Lumber Company on the site of the former Black Butte cattle ranch directly south of Black Butte.cite book
last = McArthur
first = Lewis A.
authorlink = Lewis A. McArthur
coauthors = Lewis L. McArthur
title = Oregon Geographic Names
origyear = 1928
edition = Seventh Edition
year = 2003
publisher = Oregon Historical Society Press
location = Portland, Oregon
id = ISBN 0-87595-277-1
pages = 86] The first residents arrived in 1971 and Black Butte Ranch post office was established the same year.

Wildfire

Black Butte Ranch has been threatened by many wildfires, especially since 2002, when the Cache Mountain Fire burned two homes in the northwest corner of the ranch. [cite news |title=BBR residents to return today |url=http://www.nuggetnews.com/archives/20020731fire/front27.shtml |publisher="Nugget Newspaper" |date=2002-08-02 |accessdate=2008-03-18] [cite web |url=http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/news/2002/08/020801fire1.shtml |title=Cache Mountain Fire - Fact Sheet 7 |publisher=US Forest Service |date=2002-08-01 |accessdate=2008-03-18] Black Butte was once again threatened by the B and B Complex Fire in 2003 [cite web |url=http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/news/2003/08/030821bbfires2.shtml |title=B and B Complex Morning Brief |publisher=US Forest Service |date=2003-08-21 |accessdate=2008-03-18] , and in 2007 the GW Fire came within a quarter of a mile of some homes on the ranch. [cite news |url=http://www.nuggetnews.com/main.asp?SectionID=85&SubSectionID=141&ArticleID=13465 |title=GW Fire: Black Butte Ranch evacuation underway |publisher=Nugget Newspaper |date=2007-09-03 |accessdate=2008-03-18] [cite web |url=http://www.inciweb.org/incident/970/ |title=Gw Fire Wildland Fire |publisher=Incident Information System |date=2007-09-11 |accessdate=2008-03-18]

References

External links

* [http://www.blackbutteranch.com/ Black Butte Ranch] (official website)