Biggs Junction, Oregon

Biggs Junction fell from 50 to 5 between 2000 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.

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.

• 1953 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Wishram quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1977 USGS Biggs Junction quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Goldendale quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Biggs Junction quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Biggs Junction between 1999 and 2019, burning about 19,924 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Rufus
• Thornberry

Every fire recorded in Sherman County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Biggs Junction: 10 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gemstone, 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.

Every working recorded in Sherman County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1117690. 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.