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Juniper Canyon, Oregon

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Crooked River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97754. The Survey maps it on the Stearns Butte quadrangle. 2,564 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,901 feet above sea level.

Juniper Canyon within Crook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Juniper Canyon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. 41 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.

Reported cause Fires
Natural41
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
22 September 2014Naturalunder an acrePrineville District0914
2 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePrineville District0559
17 September 1995Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictSCHWARTZ
17 September 1995Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictTRIPLE J.
5 August 2019Naturalunder an acrePrineville District0576
5 August 2016Naturalunder an acrePrineville District0440
4 August 2019Naturalunder an acrePrineville District0565
4 August 2013Firearms and explosives useunder an acrePrineville District0494

Every fire recorded in Crook County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Juniper Canyon: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Crooked River TuffVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Games Guide GroupUraniumOccurrence
Games Guide GroupUraniumUnknown
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Crooked River TuffStonePast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Juniper CanyonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rocky CanyonStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Juniper CanyonStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Crook 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
Roberts8.6 miles11
Prineville8.9 miles10
Powell Butte13.1 miles16
Post15.9 miles11
Forest Crossing19.5 miles15
Paulina43.9 miles14
Suplee59.5 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 Juniper CanyonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108365335The 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 2805454. 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.