What is this yellow area on Sectional Chart?

Light pattern of the city at night.

This is near my AO. Are you in Central Oregon?
 
No city there. Just sagebrush and Pine trees. Central Oregon.

LaPine has a 1700 population, looks like this:



LaPine is one of the smallest towns in Eastern Oregon, population 1700. Redmond, Bend, Madras, Prineville all are much bigger, but no huge yellow trapezoid.
 
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The yellow trapezoid is the city of LaPine. It does exist :)
 
Reservation?

It does seem to be centered over La Pine.

Maybe the cartographers got lazy.
 
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Similar to, I suspect, Lake Wobegon's fate. In the words of Garrison Keillor:
"If anyone asked why the town appeared on no maps, I explained that when the state map was drawn after the Civil War, teams of surveyors worked their way in from the outer four corners and, arriving at the center, found they had surveyed more of Minnesota than there was room for between Wisconsin and the Dakotas, and so the corners had to be overlapped in the middle, and Lake Wobegon wound up on the bottom flap."​

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kgruber said:
No city there. Just sagebrush and Pine trees. Central Oregon.

LaPine has a 1700 population, looks like this:



LaPine is one of the smallest towns in Eastern Oregon, population 1700. Redmond, Bend, Madras, Prineville all are much bigger, but no yellow.
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LaPine is a big city!!!


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I've found what is charted as what the lights will look like doesn't match the reality of what they look like today. I'm not sure what schedule they update that on or how they try to determine it but it rarely matches the layout of rapidly growing cities.
 
docmirror said:
Yes it is. Under: VFR Symbols; "culture" search for "cities and large towns, category 2".

Therefore it is a category 2 city/large town.
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BTDT.

No LaPine is tiny, not trapezoidal. The surround black line is also not as heavy as actual "populated places."
 
jesse said:
I've found what is charted as what the lights will look like doesn't match the reality of what they look like today. I'm not sure what schedule they update that on or how they try to determine it but it rarely matches the layout of rapidly growing cities.
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Maybe it lights up when the aliens are on approach for that base...
 
kgruber said:
BTDT.

No LaPine is tiny, not trapezoidal. The surround black line is also not as heavy as actual "populated places."
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Yes. The charted symbol is defined in the link you referenced. What you are referring to as "just east of LaPine" is the actual cultural identification of LaPine, not just east of it.

If you have a problem with the boundaries, or shape, or line width elements, send them here:

800-626-3677 or 9-AMC-Aerochart@faa.gov

They like to hear from you, and will coordinate to get it fixed or verified.
 
La Pine may have only 1700 people inside the city limits but there is a large rectangular developed area of properties that creates that pattern of light at night. Take a look at it on Google Maps. This is actually common in the desert, another example is Lake Havasu City Arizona.
 
Silvaire - I believe the correct spelling is; "Lake Haveascrew". At least for the waterborne temporary population in summer. :D
 
kgruber said:
No city there. Just sagebrush and Pine trees. Central Oregon.

LaPine has a 1700 population, looks like this:



LaPine is one of the smallest towns in Eastern Oregon, population 1700. Redmond, Bend, Madras, Prineville all are much bigger, but no huge yellow trapezoid.
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Switch to satellite view and you'll see it.
 
It depicts a nudest colony. Yellow means caution, old people with dragging parts!!!!
 
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