Mission, Oregon
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Umatilla Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97801. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mission quadrangle. 960 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
3 figuresMission fell from 1,019 to 960 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 | 1,019 | |
| 2010 | 1,037 | +18 (+2%) |
| 2020 | 960 | -77 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1935 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Mission quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
287 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of Mission between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,650 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 60 |
| Debris and open burning | 59 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 22 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 20 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 17 |
| Smoking | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Fireworks | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Other causes | 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 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Umatilla Agency | WALK TRAIL |
| 9 September 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Umatilla Agency | POWERPOLE |
| 9 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Umatilla Agency | UPRR7 |
| 7 September 2006 | Other causes | under an acre | Umatilla Agency | HAYSTACK |
| 7 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Umatilla Agency | N CAYUSE |
| 7 September 1994 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Umatilla Agency | LITTLE |
| 4 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.8 acres | Umatilla Agency | LLYOD ROAD |
| 4 September 2001 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Umatilla Agency | CAYUSERDM8 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Mission: 7 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duff | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Duff Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Grubbs Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Grubbs Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Havanna | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Havanna Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mission Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mission Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pendleton Mission | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pendleton Mission Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mission in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mission | - | Mesonet station OD191, 2 miles WSW of Mission, reported a wind gust of 62 mph from the outflow boundary of a deteriorating thunderstorm at 2220 PDT. |
| May 2022 | Flood | Mission | - | A trained spotter 9 miles west of Meacham, OR reported water covering county roadways making them impassable at 0900 PST on May 29th. A public Facebook report from 8 miles east northeast of Pilot Rock, OR had video of flooding over Popcorn Ln along Mckay Creek, making the road impassable at 0900 PST on May 29th. A NWS Employee reporting 4 miles south of Mission, OR reported water covering the intersection of Lloyd Rd. and Market Rd due to flooding along the Pattawa Creek at 1013 PST on May 29th. Another report 4 miles east southeast of Pilot Rock, OR reported 2.06 inches of rainfall over an 18 hour period, with water over Stewart Creek Rd and other local roads at PST on May 29th. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Mission | - | Dime sized hail reported. |
| August 1999 | Lightning | Mission | - | Lightning damaged a power pole next to highway 11 near Mission. This caused a 45 minute power outage that affected 1300 homes. |
| July 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Mission | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Mission | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirkpatrick | 1.2 miles | 11 | |
| Riverside | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Tutuilla | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Fulton | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Pendleton | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Cayuse | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Green Meadows | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Glendale | 7.6 miles | 12 |
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 Mission | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3306703 | 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 1124254. 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.




