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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.

Mission within Umatilla County

Population over time

3 figures

Mission 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,019
20101,037+18 (+2%)
2020960-77 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

287 since 1992

Regional 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 use60
Debris and open burning59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Power generation/transmission/distribution22
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Smoking14
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural12
Fireworks12
Recreation and ceremony11
Other causes2

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
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUmatilla AgencyWALK TRAIL
9 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUmatilla AgencyPOWERPOLE
9 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUmatilla AgencyUPRR7
7 September 2006Other causesunder an acreUmatilla AgencyHAYSTACK
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreUmatilla AgencyN CAYUSE
7 September 1994Smoking1.5 acresUmatilla AgencyLITTLE
4 September 2018Debris and open burning5.8 acresUmatilla AgencyLLYOD ROAD
4 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUmatilla AgencyCAYUSERDM8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Umatilla 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
DuffStonePast Producer
Duff PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Grubbs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grubbs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
HavannaSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Havanna PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pendleton MissionSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pendleton Mission PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2023Thunderstorm WindMission-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 2022FloodMission-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 2010HailMission-Dime sized hail reported.
August 1999LightningMission-Lightning damaged a power pole next to highway 11 near Mission. This caused a 45 minute power outage that affected 1300 homes.
July 2009Funnel CloudMission-no account filed
August 2004HailMission-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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
Kirkpatrick1.2 miles11
Riverside2.9 miles11
Tutuilla3.4 miles11
Fulton5.4 miles11
Pendleton5.6 miles12
Cayuse6.7 miles10
Green Meadows7.2 miles10
Glendale7.6 miles12

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 MissionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3306703The 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.