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Juntura, Oregon

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Juntura census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97911. It stands on Butte Creek. The Survey maps it on the Juntura quadrangle. 39 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,963 feet above sea level.

Juntura within Malheur County

Population over time

2 figures

Juntura fell from 57 to 39 between 2010 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
201057
202039-18 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Juntura between 1995 and 2018, burning about 15,453 acres in total. 17 started naturally. None 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
Natural17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 September 2002Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictSTEMLER
22 August 2013Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictCHINA CREEK
17 August 2014Natural4.3 acresVale DistrictSWEETWATER
13 August 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreVale DistrictBALER
10 August 1997Natural5.0 acresVale DistrictBONEY BS
9 July 1998Natural1.0 acresVale DistrictBEULAH RD
9 July 1998Natural15 acresVale DistrictBONEYBASIN
31 July 2013Natural3,026 acresVale DistrictSTEMLER RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Malheur County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Juntura: 9 producers, 6 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal. 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
Hoot OwlStonePast Producer
Hoot Owl Community PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Juntura Warm Spring #1GeothermalProducer
Juntura Warm Spring #2GeothermalProducer
Mp 192 Central Oregon HwyStonePast Producer
Mp 192 Central Oregon HwyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Hot SpringGeothermalProducer
Upper DugoutStonePast Producer
Upper Dugout Community PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Malheur County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Juntura in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 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 1998Flash FloodJuntura$10,000no account filed
February 2017FloodJuntura-Ice jams on the Malheur River caused flooding along U.S. Highway 20 from Juntura to Vale.
August 2002Flash FloodJuntura-Very heavy rainfall, estimated at more than one inch in 15 minutes, filled drainage ditches and sent mud and water across Highway 20 in Juntura, Oregon.
June 1998HailJuntura-no account filed
July 1997WildfireJuntura-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindJuntura-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Malheur 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
Beulah11.8 miles10
Bohna (historical)13.7 miles9
Riverside14.6 miles8
Creston17.2 miles8
Westfall26.0 miles8
Harper26.2 miles8
Clover (historical)29.0 miles9
Crowley32.8 miles6

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 JunturaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709639The 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 1136429. 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.