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Suntex, Oregon

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Burns census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97758. The Survey maps it on the Suntex quadrangle. It stands 4,308 feet above sea level.

Suntex within Harney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Suntex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 17 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
Natural17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBurns District8357
7 August 2005Naturalunder an acreBurns DistrictBEST MAYO
22 August 2013Naturalunder an acreBurns District3217
20 August 1998Naturalunder an acreBurns DistrictOKESON
8 July 1994Natural30 acresBurns DistrictCHICKAHOMI
6 July 2007Natural2.0 acresBurns DistrictCHICKAHOMINY
31 July 2014Natural1.3 acresBurns DistrictDYLAN
31 July 2014Natural1.8 acresBurns DistrictDRY ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harney County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Suntex: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. 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
Juniper Ridge PerlitePerliteOccurrence
Juniper Ridge PerlitePerliteUnknown
Pit #5StonePast Producer
Pit #5Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
West Riley SiteStonePast Producer
West Riley SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Harney 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
Riley7.5 miles7
Wagontire26.9 miles7
Hines29.2 miles10
Indian Village29.2 miles10
Burns30.5 miles10
Narrows41.4 miles8
Harney43.0 miles11
Trout Creek43.3 miles10

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 SuntexAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22072970The 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 1129842. 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.