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Granite, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Prairie City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97877. It lies near Big Gordon Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Granite quadrangle. 32 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,695 feet above sea level.

Granite within Grant County

On record in Granite

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

3 figures

Granite grew from 24 to 32 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.

YearPeople Change
200024
201038+14 (+58%)
202032-6 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Granite between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 107 started naturally. 2 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
Natural107
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
9 September 2017Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestBOUNDARY
6 September 2003Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestPOOR BOY
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestCRANE CREEK
4 September 2006Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestDAWN
26 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmatilla National ForestDIME
24 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestMC HAIL
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National Forestnot named
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 177 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 177 workings within 5 miles of Granite: 60 occurrences, 58 prospects, 51 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Chromium. 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
Buffalo MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Lead, ZincPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Buffalo MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Bull Run Creek PlacersSilver, Gold, Platinum, IridiumPast ProducerStream Placer
Cap Martin MineGold, Silver, Zinc, LeadOccurrenceVein
Cap Martin MineGold, Zinc, Silver, LeadProspect
Granite PlacersGold, Silver, PlatinumProducerSTREAM PLACER
Granite PlacersGold, Silver, PGEPast Producer
Granite polymetallic veinsGold, PGE, SilverPast Producer
Independance/Cougar-Independance GpGold, Silver, Copper, Arsenic, Antimony, ZincPast Producer
IndependenceGold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, ArsenicProducerVein

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granite in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2004: 4 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001HailGranite$2,000Golfball-sized hail destroyed the awning of a camper at the North Fork of the John Day public campground.
June 1999HailGranite-Hail up to 1 inch in diameter dented at least one car. 3 inches of rain in one hour's time was reported between 1:30 and 2:30.
September 2004HailGranite-no account filed
July 2000HailGranite-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Porterville (historical)1.5 miles14
Cabell City6.5 miles13
Robinsonville7.5 miles14
Austin14.9 miles14
Bates15.7 miles12
Susanville20.5 miles12
Galena22.2 miles12
Prairie City28.5 miles14

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 GraniteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1884763The 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 1142911. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.