BlockBefore

Shaniko, Oregon

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Antelope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97057. It lies near West Little Pine Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Shaniko quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,343 feet above sea level.

Shaniko within Wasco County

On record in Shaniko

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Shaniko fell from 36 to 30 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
201036
202030-6 (-17%)

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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Shaniko between 1999 and 2018, burning about 1,977 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
25 September 2012Debris and open burning660 acresPrineville District0584 ROOPER
29 August 2011Natural200 acresPrineville District0710
2 August 1999Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictSHANIKO
13 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1,051 acresPrineville District0222
30 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePrineville District0176
3 June 2018Natural15 acresPrineville District0297
3 June 2018Natural50 acresPrineville District0296

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wasco County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Shaniko: 7 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Justesen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Justesen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mp 61.8 ShanikoStonePast Producer
Mp 61.8 ShanikoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Shaniko Rock ProductStonePast Producer
Shaniko Rock ProductStonePast Producer
Shaniko Rock Products PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Shaniko Rock Products PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wasco County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shaniko in 2 storm reports in 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindShaniko-Strong winds estimated at 100-115 mph downed portions of two high tension power towers.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindShaniko-Completely destroyed riverside camps along Deschutes River with debris everywhere.

Every storm recorded in Wasco 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
Antelope6.6 miles8
Bakeoven7.4 miles8
Criterion (historical)13.3 miles8
Clarno16.0 miles11
Dant19.3 miles12
East Maupin20.7 miles14
Maupin21.1 miles14
Wapinitia27.8 miles13

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 ShanikoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2358660The 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 1126791. 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.