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.
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
Fremont Powerhouselisted 1983
Population over time
3 figuresGranite 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 24 | |
| 2010 | 38 | +14 (+58%) |
| 2020 | 32 | -6 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Sumpter quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Canyon City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Granite quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Bates quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Granite quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
122 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 107 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Umatilla National Forest | BOUNDARY |
| 6 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Umatilla National Forest | POOR BOY |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | CRANE CREEK |
| 4 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Umatilla National Forest | DAWN |
| 26 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Umatilla National Forest | DIME |
| 24 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Umatilla National Forest | MC HAIL |
| 2 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Umatilla National Forest | not named |
| 2 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 177 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Buffalo Mine | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Bull Run Creek Placers | Silver, Gold, Platinum, Iridium | Past Producer | Stream Placer | |
| Cap Martin Mine | Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Cap Martin Mine | Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead | Prospect | ||
| Granite Placers | Gold, Silver, Platinum | Producer | STREAM PLACER | |
| Granite Placers | Gold, Silver, PGE | Past Producer | ||
| Granite polymetallic veins | Gold, PGE, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Independance/Cougar-Independance Gp | Gold, Silver, Copper, Arsenic, Antimony, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Independence | Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Arsenic | Producer | Vein |
Storms near this place
4 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Hail | Granite | $2,000 | Golfball-sized hail destroyed the awning of a camper at the North Fork of the John Day public campground. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Granite | - | 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 2004 | Hail | Granite | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Granite | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Porterville (historical) | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Cabell City | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Robinsonville | 7.5 miles | 14 | |
| Austin | 14.9 miles | 14 | |
| Bates | 15.7 miles | 12 | |
| Susanville | 20.5 miles | 12 | |
| Galena | 22.2 miles | 12 | |
| Prairie City | 28.5 miles | 14 |
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 Granite | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1884763 | The 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.





