BlockBefore

Mount Vernon, Oregon

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the John Day census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97865. It stands on Ingle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 548 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,865 feet above sea level.

Mount Vernon within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Vernon fell from 595 to 548 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
2000595
2020548-47 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Mount Vernon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,184 acres in total. 25 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
Natural25
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDEAN SPRING
30 September 2011Naturalunder an acreJohn Day UnitLITTLE BLACK BUTTE
29 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreJohn Day UnitDAVIS CREEK
28 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresJohn Day UnitGIBSON GULCH
25 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreJohn Day UnitHARPER CREEK
25 September 1995Natural1.5 acresJohn Day UnitPLEASANT HILL
16 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreJohn Day UnitBEECH CREEK
16 September 1995Debris and open burning30 acresJohn Day UnitGIBSON GULCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Mount Vernon: 16 past producers, 6 producers, 4 prospects, 2 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Stone. 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
Ferris & Marchbank PlacerGoldPast Producer
Fox Valley ProspectsGold, SilverPast Producer
Mt. Vernon Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Talc BoulderTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clay PitClayPast Producer
Coho CreekStonePast Producer
Coho Creek PitStone, DimensionPast Producer
Mount Vernon DepositAsbestosProducerChrysotile
Mount Vernon DepositAsbestosPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant 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
John Day8.5 miles15
Canyon City8.9 miles15
Beech Creek14.0 miles13
Fox16.0 miles13
Long Creek20.5 miles13
Courtrock20.5 miles12
Seneca20.9 miles12
Prairie City21.6 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 Mount VernonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1012169The 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 1146532. 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.