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Unity, Oregon

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hereford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97884. It lies near Sagebrush Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Unity quadrangle. 40 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,040 feet above sea level.

Unity within Baker County

On record in Unity

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Unity fell from 131 to 40 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
2000131
201071-60 (-46%)
202040-31 (-44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Unity between 1992 and 2020, burning about 312 acres in total. 18 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
Natural18
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
8 September 1998Naturalunder an acreBaker UnitDITCH FIRE
5 September 2006Natural17 acresBaker UnitHISSING DOG
27 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreVale DistrictUNITY DMP
1 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreVale DistrictBIG CR
8 August 2006Naturalunder an acreBaker UnitBUCK MTN.
6 August 2005Natural1.0 acresWallowa-Whitman National ForestPOLE CREEK
24 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.9 acresBaker UnitRESERVOIR
19 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBaker UnitEAST CAMP CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Unity: 11 past producers, 6 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Diatomite. 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
Bull Run Creek PlacersGold, SilverPast Producer
RecordGold, Molybdenum, Copper, SilverProducerVein
Record MineGold, QuartzPast Producer
Thomason and SchwayderMolybdenum, Copper, Silver, GoldProducerChrysocolla, Molybdenite
Thomason and SchwayoerGold, Silver, Molybdenum, CopperPast Producer
Bull RunGold, SilverPast Producer1880
Bull Run Creek PlacersGold, SilverProducer
Dern PropertyManganeseOccurrence
Dern PropertyManganeseProspect1941
Diatomite OccurrencesDiatomiteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Baker County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Unity in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 wildfire. 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
June 2018Flash FloodUnity-Thunderstorms with heavy rainfall moved across parts of Southwest Baker County causing flash flooding and debris flow on burn scars southwest of Unity along the South Fork of the Burnt River, and along Highway 245 from northeast of Unity to around 5 miles south of the intersection with Highway 7. Weather observations from around the area reported up to one and a half inches of rain over a period of about one hour.
June 2004Flash FloodUnity-Mud slide across Hwy 26 north of Unity...see narrative for Idaho this date.
August 2002WildfireUnity-The Monument Rock Fire was started by lightning on July 12th and spread to cover over 24,000 acres before being contained on August 9th. Table Rock Lookout was evacuated and all recreational roads into the area were closed. Cost of fighting the fire totaled $7.5 million when it was combined with the Malheur Complex Fire on August 9th. The Monument-Malheur Complex Fire was contained on August 19th. The combined fire covered over 44,000 acres. The total cost of fighting the combined fire was $30.7 million. No structures were lost.
July 2006Flash FloodUnity-no account filed
August 1995HailUnity-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baker 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
Audrey (historical)9.2 miles13
Hereford9.3 miles11
Whitney (historical)16.2 miles13
Carroll (historical)17.1 miles13
McEwen18.8 miles13
Parkersville (historical)21.2 miles14
Sumpter21.3 miles13
Auburn (historical)22.3 miles16

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 UnityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458935The 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 1151657. 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.