Heppner, Oregon
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Heppner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97836. It stands on Shobe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Heppner quadrangle. 1,187 people lived here at the 2020 count.
On record in Heppner
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 3 records
Gilliam and Bisbee Buildinglisted 1990
Heppner Hotellisted 1982
Morrow County Courthouselisted 1985
Population over time
3 figuresHeppner fell from 1,395 to 1,187 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 | 1,395 | |
| 2010 | 1,291 | -104 (-7%) |
| 2020 | 1,187 | -104 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Heppner quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Heppner quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Heppner: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heppner in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 6 hail, 4 heavy rain, 3 flash flood, 2 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Lightning | Heppner | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Heppner | $94,000 | One to two inches of rainfall within 1 hour caused flash flooding in the Heppner and Lexington areas. Roads were inundated. A home, two basements, and a garage were flooded. Sandbags were used to protect homes and businesses. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Heppner | $70,000 | Flash flooding on Hinton and Willow Creeks damaged roads, bridges, and the Morrow County Fairgrounds. The Heppner elementary school was evacuated as a precaution. |
| October 2018 | Flood | Heppner | $3,000 | Two feet of water inside a residence due to heavy rain forced four adults and a child to leave their house on the 54200 Block of Highway 74 in Heppner. |
| April 2019 | Flood | Heppner | $2,000 | Flooding along Hinton Creek took place on April 9th and 10th. The fairgrounds in Heppner were flooded as well as fields along the creek above Heppner. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heppner | - | Pear tree had several limbs broken off. |
| April 2012 | Heavy Rain | Heppner | - | Three quarters of an inch of rainfall fell in a 35 minute period. |
| April 2012 | Flash Flood | Heppner | - | Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in several areas of Heppner, including residences, the elementary school, sewage treatment plant, city shop, a bank, and the newspaper office. Roadways were also flooded and debris cleanup had to ensue in 10 spots. |
| April 2012 | Heavy Rain | Heppner | - | Rainfall of 1.23 inches was reported in a 1 hour period. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Heppner | - | Hail dented vehicles, broke windshields and caused some roof damage. |
| July 2012 | Heavy Rain | Heppner | - | Shobe Canyon mesonet station reported 1.1 inches of rainfall in 1 hour. |
| April 1998 | Heavy Rain | Heppner | - | Three tenths to one half inch of rain fell in 20 minutes from Heppner to Ione with wind gusts to 40 mph. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Heppner | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Heppner | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Heppner | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Heppner | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Heppner | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruggs | 9.2 miles | 7 | |
| Lexington | 9.2 miles | 7 | |
| Hardman (historical) | 14.3 miles | 7 | |
| Lena | 15.0 miles | 7 | |
| Valby | 15.2 miles | 7 | |
| Eightmile | 15.3 miles | 7 | |
| Galloway (historical) | 15.3 miles | 11 | |
| Pine City | 17.4 miles | 11 |
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 Heppner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q571376 | 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 1121763. 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.
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.



