Morgan, Oregon

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Ione-Lexington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97843. It lies in Morgan Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Cecil quadrangle. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Morgan within Morrow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1906 USGS Blalock Island quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1908 USGS Blalock Island quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Pendleton quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Cecil quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Hermiston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Morgan: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Chick Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Chick Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cecil	4.9 miles	13
Ione	6.2 miles	13
Ella	8.0 miles	15
Lexington	14.5 miles	7
Valby	16.8 miles	7
Gooseberry	18.0 miles	7
Eightmile	21.2 miles	7
Boardman	23.0 miles	16

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 Morgan	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6911540	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 1167717. 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.