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Athena, Oregon

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Athena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97813. It lies near Waterman Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Athena quadrangle. 1,209 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,710 feet above sea level.

Athena within Umatilla County

On record in Athena

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

14 figures

Athena grew from 495 to 1,209 between 1890 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
1890495
1900703+208 (+42%)
1910586-117 (-17%)
1920621+35 (+6%)
1930504-117 (-19%)
1940513+9 (+2%)
1950750+237 (+46%)
1960950+200 (+27%)
1970872-78 (-8%)
1980965+93 (+11%)
1990997+32 (+3%)
20001,221+224 (+22%)
20101,126-95 (-8%)
20201,209+83 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Athena between 1992 and 2018, burning about 775 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 1995Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National Forestnot named
9 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined241 acresUmatilla AgencyKIRK ROAD
8 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUmatilla AgencyRAINVILLE
7 August 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresPendleton UnitSLEEPY GROVE
26 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acrePendleton UnitGRAVEL PIT
2 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use30 acresUmatilla AgencyMANN ROAD
15 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreUmatilla AgencyCHARLIE
11 August 2018Arson/incendiarism7.9 acresUmatilla AgencyREDFORD LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Athena: 9 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Catron PitStonePast Producer
Catron PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Rogers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rogers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Weston3.5 miles8
Adams4.9 miles10
Waterman5.9 miles10
Helix9.2 miles10
Cayuse10.0 miles10
Milton-Freewater10.0 miles8
Gibbon10.2 miles9
Cobb11.1 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AthenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2596206The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1167693. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.