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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.

Heppner within Morrow County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Heppner 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,395
20101,291-104 (-7%)
20201,187-104 (-8%)

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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Morrow County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2000LightningHeppner$100,000no account filed
May 2011Flash FloodHeppner$94,000One 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 2011Flash FloodHeppner$70,000Flash flooding on Hinton and Willow Creeks damaged roads, bridges, and the Morrow County Fairgrounds. The Heppner elementary school was evacuated as a precaution.
October 2018FloodHeppner$3,000Two 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 2019FloodHeppner$2,000Flooding 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 2013Thunderstorm WindHeppner-Pear tree had several limbs broken off.
April 2012Heavy RainHeppner-Three quarters of an inch of rainfall fell in a 35 minute period.
April 2012Flash FloodHeppner-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 2012Heavy RainHeppner-Rainfall of 1.23 inches was reported in a 1 hour period.
July 2012HailHeppner-Hail dented vehicles, broke windshields and caused some roof damage.
July 2012Heavy RainHeppner-Shobe Canyon mesonet station reported 1.1 inches of rainfall in 1 hour.
April 1998Heavy RainHeppner-Three tenths to one half inch of rain fell in 20 minutes from Heppner to Ione with wind gusts to 40 mph.
July 2006HailHeppner-no account filed
July 2006HailHeppner-no account filed
July 2006HailHeppner-no account filed
June 2006HailHeppner-no account filed
August 2004HailHeppner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrow 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
Ruggs9.2 miles7
Lexington9.2 miles7
Hardman (historical)14.3 miles7
Lena15.0 miles7
Valby15.2 miles7
Eightmile15.3 miles7
Galloway (historical)15.3 miles11
Pine City17.4 miles11

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 HeppnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q571376The 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.