Horse Butte Cabin Butte Coyote Butte Skeleton Cave Bessie Butte Boyd Cave Ryegrass Hill Dry River Benham Falls *Lunabess Hill *Lava Butte Flow Huntington Butte Dark Hole Wind Cave Lava Butte Stookey Flat *Gas-Line Flows Arnold Ice Cave Dyer Well Charcoal Cave Golden Basin Luna Butte Kelsey Butte Lava River Caves Horse Ridge *South Kelsey Flow Sunriver *Junction Draw *Northwest Rift Zone Klawhop Butte Lava Top Butte *Evans Draw Smith Well Fuzztail Butte Mogul Butte *Mokst Butte Flow *Camp Abbot Buttes Evans Well Ikt Butte Swamp Wells Swamp Wells Butte Semi Butte Mokst Butte *Lost Butte Pondo Butte Camp 1 *North Sugarpine Flow Grade Butte Sugar Pine Butte Lockit Butte *Astronaut Butte Buckbrush Butte Staghead Butte *Forest Road Flow *Orphan Draw Klone Butte Lokey Butte Lava Cast Forest CG *South Sugarpine Flow *Lava Cast Forest Flow Hunter Butte Kwinnum Butte Jammer Butte Taghum Butte Company Butte *Smith Draw *Lava Cascade Flow Kipuka Butte Orphan Butte *Hidden Flow Pilpil Butte Tepee Draw Erratic Butte Lone Butte *North Kawak Butte Lowullo Butte Elbow Butte *Brooks Draw Lithic Butte Scraped Butte North Canyon *Stearns Draw Shoulder Butte Kawak Butte Washed Butte *North Summit Flow Cinder Hill Paulina Prairie Jackpine Butte *Scanlon Draw North Paulina Peak *Sheeps Rump Campsite No 2 Pine Cone Butte Skunk Rim Deadfall Butte *The Spire *The Red Slide East Lake Fissure North Cove Campground Warm Springs Cone McKay Butte *Sabol Draw Inter Lake Flow Campsite No 1 Camp Butte *McKay Draw Warm Springs Campground Paulina Creek Central Pumice Cone *East Rim Fissure McKay Crossing CG *East Lake Tuff Ring *Crossing Draw *Game Hut Obsidian Flow Sabol Butte Cinder Pit *McKay Falls *East Lake Obsidian Flows Doublet Cones *Footbridge Falls Paulina Creek Falls Native Dome Little Crater *Buried Dome Lakeshore Dome *South Dome Lost Lake Little Red Hill Red Hill *Mixture Butte *Wickiup Draw Big Obsidian Flow The Dome Paulina Peak Pumice Flat Pumice Butte Sand Butte Russell Ridge China Hat Dusted Butte Weasel Butte *Hixon Draw *Pipeline Butte Corner Butte Devils Horn *Shevlin Draw Mantled Butte Elongate Butte Round Hill Shaped Hill Topso Butte Matz Ice Cave *China Hat Draw Transit Butte Cinder Cone Finley Butte Kelly Butte Surveyors Ice Cave Split Dome Kweo Butte Surveyors Lava Flow Little Kweo Box Butte Surprise Gulch Lava Pass Bisected Butte Rim Butte Abacus Buttes Alignment Butte Dogleg Butte Ooskan Butte Tom Butte Youtlkut Butte Cluster Butte Lava Crossing Cinder Pit Jack Butte Toad Butte South Ice Cave Sand Flat South Ice Cave Cinder Pit Jones Well Red Butte Sand Flat Buttes Crater Buttes Excursion Cones Willow Butte Perched Butte Indian Butte Indian Spring Spring Butte Well Green Butte Amota Butte Ipsoot Butte Waterfall Rim Triangle Buttes Dealys Well Sugar Pine Ridge Spring Butte BS Well Moffitt Butte East Pine Lake Well Ryan Cabin Hooligan Hill Flat Top Cabin Lake Poppy Well Harrison Reservoir Wegert Well Button Well *Stage Station Butte Katati Butte McQueen Well Summit Butte Beeler Well Hill Well 0 2 4 8 Miles Big Hole Dry Well Hole in the Ground February, 2017 Background to the proposal to add names at Newberry Volcano By Julie Donnelly-Nolan, Research Geologist, USGS Menlo Park CA Newberry Volcano is one of the most hazardous volcanoes in the continental United States. Its lavas cover about 1200 square miles and underlie populated areas including Sunriver and downtown Bend OR. The lava flow that underlies downtown Bend and formed Lava River Cave erupted from vents midway up the north flank of the volcano and reached the south edge of Redmond. Another of several far-traveled flows reached Smith Rock and temporarily filled the Crooked River channel. On the main edifice of Newberry, there are as many as 400 cinder cones that represent >250 eruptions during the half-million-year history of the volcano. Most of these involve cinder cone(s) and lava flows that traveled a few miles to a dozen miles. Several explosive caldera collapse eruptions have also occurred, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and by ash falls, some of which reached the Bay Area. In an effort to understand the history of the volcano and evaluate its potential hazards, the USGS has had a long-term project at Newberry to decipher how it has behaved through time. In addition to geologic mapping, USGS scientists do argon dating of lava flows, assess episodic behavior via paleomagnetism, study the volcanic ash deposits, and sample geothermal drill cores. The goal is to understand how the volcano is likely to behave if it should become restless. The geologic map incorporates much of this information and is the fundamental document that tells the story of the volcano. It will form the basis of a new volcano hazards assessment. A geologic map names the various mapped units (e.g., “the basalt of Klone Butte”), but Newberry is the land of many cones and few names. Some lava flows have multiple names, while some areas with many lava flows have almost no names. I worked with long-time USGS volunteer and retired DNF geologist Bob Jensen to propose additional names on the volcano. We contacted a wide variety of agencies and people including the regional FS office and took our draft proposal to a meeting of the Oregon Geographic Names Board (OGNB) in 2008. The proposal was subsequently presented to the DNF district ranger. A draft final version of the map was compiled in 2010. But the advent of high quality lidar coverage beginning in 2011 changed the timeline for the mapping. Many new features became visible, especially in heavily forested and difficult-to-reach parts of the volcano. That work is now largely complete and a final compilation of the map is underway. At the urging of the OGNB, we have dusted off and modified our original naming proposal in an effort to add names in critical areas. The proposal also includes names used previously in an informal way in various geologic publications. We began using many of these names for orienting ourselves in everyday work and we chose them based on shape, animal or tree name, history, etc. Each name in the spreadsheet has an explanation and description of the feature. We have identified and named the specific features that provide the most benefit to the geologic map, but the names we suggest need not be the final names. Pacific Northwest Region – Regional Office Newberry Volcano Geologic Map Feature Names – NEW R6 Geographic Name Proposal Background: R6 Geographic Names Advisors for the USDA Forest Service to the Oregon Geographic Names Board (OGNB) and the Washington Committee on Geographic Names (WCGN), Maxine Kline and Jesse Nett, received notification of an incoming proposal to the OGNB to name several features upon the Newberry Volcano edifice. The proposal will be submitted to the OGNB by Dr. Julie Donnelly-Nolan, Geologist, USGS Volcano Hazards Team, Menlo Park, CA, and Robert Jensen, retired Deschutes National Forest Geologist. The team has researched Newberry Volcano for several years. Over two hundred geographic features upon the edifice are currently unnamed. The proposal intends to provide geographic reference for an upcoming USGS-produced geological map. Impact: The OGNB will notify board members, tribal interests, county governments, and historical societies to investigate and request comments regarding the proposed geographic names. Once all input is received, the OGNB will vote to accept or not accept the proposal for the U.S. Board of Geographic Names. If the OGNB votes to accept the proposal, they will ask the Forest to provide a written concurrence or non-concurrence, accompanied by a brief narrative justifying the decision. Since the features are located on USDA Forest Service-administered lands (Deschutes National Forest – not designated Forest Service wilderness), the thorough review of the proposal details will incur a time impact. The feedback from the Forest will be forwarded to Betsy Kanalley, the Geospatial Products and Services Program Manager at the Washington Office, who will work with the Chief’s office for an official Agency response. Current Situation: The scope of this briefing is to notify the leadership of Deschutes National Forest of the upcoming proposal of approximately 95 features upon the Newberry Volcano edifice while also familiarizing the staff with the new R6 Geographic Names process. Recommendations for the impacted Forest leadership and staff: -Review briefing and Appendices A - D. -Refer to the BGN Principles, Policies, and Procedures for Domestic Geographic Names. http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/policies.htm USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. 1/3/17 1 Proposed Name Location (NAD27) Latitude (N)Longitude (W) Abacus Buttes 43.61514 121.38194 Alignment Butte 43.61446 121.25990 *Astronaut Butte 43.82279 121.36630 Bisected Butte 43.61880 121.20834 *Brooks Draw 43.77050 121.03933 Buckbrush Butte 43.82297 121.32707 *Buried Dome 43.70957 121.22190 *Camp Abbot Buttes 43.86217 121.38667 Camp Butte 43.72702 121.13915 *China Hat Draw 43.64967 121.02700 Cluster Butte 43.60086 121.25927 Corner Butte 43.66478 121.24879 *Crossing Draw 43.72083 121.42730 Deadfall Butte 43.73926 121.27287 Dogleg Butte 43.61326 121.22078 Doublet Cones 43.71142 121.10755 Dusted Butte 43.68033 121.25891 *East Lake Obsidian Flows 43.71333 121.19833 *East Lake Tuff Ring 43.71920 121.20187 *East Rim Fissure 43.72117 121.17934 Elbow Butte 43.77467 121.28640 Elongate Butte 43.65782 121.23503 Erratic Butte 43.78174 121.21161 *Evans Draw 43.86867 121.04600 Excursion Cones 43.56637 121.20303 *Footbridge Falls