Burns, Oregon Burns, Oregon Location inside Harney County and Oregon Location inside Harney County and Oregon County Harney Water 0 sq mi (0 km2) Burns is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Harney County, in the U.S.
Burns and the close-by city of Hines are home to about 60 percent of the citizens in the sparsely populated county, the biggest in Oregon and the ninth biggest in the United States.
The Burns Hines region has a high-desert climate but was much wetter in the recent geologic past.
The Harney Basin was the biggest of many depressions in which lakes formed in southeastern Oregon amid the late Pleistocene.
Remnants of an ancient lake that reached as far north as Burns are at the center of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, south of the city.
In 1930, logging in the mountain peaks north of Burns led to the creation of Hines, a lumber business town, and the timber trade remained meaningful to the small-town economy until the 1990s.
In addition to ranching, a range of private and enhance enterprises support the Burns Hines economy in the 21st century.
Archeologists have found evidence of human surroundingion in the general vicinity of Burns from as early as 10,000 years ago. Members of the intact Burns Paiute Tribe of Harney County, descended mainly from the Wadatika band of Paiutes, were hunter-gatherers throughout central and southern Oregon.
In the 1930s, the Burns Paiute Tribe began buying territory near Burns and holding tribal elections. By the late 1960s, the tribe had adopted a constitution and tribal bylaws, and in 1972 the Burns Paiute formally became an autonomous tribe, eligible to enter into contracts with other governments and legal entities. The tribe owns the Burns Paiute Reservation, 770 acres (310 ha) north of Burns, and individual members of the tribe own more than 11,000 acres (4,500 ha) of territory elsewhere in the county. In 1991, the tribe had about 350 members, and about 200 lived on the reservation. It was formally incorporated after Harney County's creation in 1889 through the splitting of Grant County into two counties.
Early settler, merchant, and county commissioner George Mc - Gowan titled the town/city after the Scottish poet Robert Burns.
Forest Service the rights to cut timber in the Blue Mountains near Seneca, north of Burns. After winning the timber contract, the Hines Company assembled the 52-mile (84 km) Oregon and Northwestern Railroad between Burns and Seneca. Edward Hines, the business owner, assembled a lumber foundry and business town, incorporated as the City of Hines in 1930. Timber and logging remained meaningful to the small-town economy until the 1990s, when the area's last lumber foundry closed for lack of timber. Cattle ranching in the region began as early as the 1860s and period after passage of the Desert Land Act of 1877. The act promoted evolution of dry and semi-arid enhance territory in the United States by making 320-acre (130 ha) plots available to individuals willing to "reclaim, irrigate, and cultivate" the land. Some of the Harney County ranches established in the 19th century still exist in the 21st. Agricultural revenue for Harney County in 2011 totaled about $84 million.
Harney County is the biggest county in Oregon and the ninth biggest in the United States. It covers about 10,000 square miles (26,000 km2) but has a total populace of only about 7,600. Most of that populace lives in Burns or Hines, about 2 miles (3 km) southwest of Burns.
Burns had about 2,800 inhabitants in 2010 and Hines about 1,600, for a total of 4,400, nearly 60 percent of the county population.
Silvies River east of Burns along Oregon Route 78 The town/city is 132 miles (212 km) east of Bend, and 132 miles (212 km) west of Ontario, Oregon, on U.S.
Burns is about 200 miles (322 km) south of Pendleton. Oregon Route 78 runs between Burns and communities to the southeast including Crane, Princeton, and Burns Junction, about 100 miles (161 km) away. A fourth highway, Oregon Route 205, links the town/city to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 36 miles (58 km) to the south, and to Frenchglen, further south near Steens Mountain. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.55 square miles (9.19 km2), all land. Burns is in southeastern Oregon near the northern edge of the dry Harney Basin.
Within the Harney Basin, ancient Malheur Lake the 21st-century remnants of which include Malheur Lake, Harney Lake, and Mud Lake veiled 900 square miles (2,300 km2) and extended as far north as Burns.
Burns has a semi-arid continental climate (Koppen BSk) bordering upon a continental Mediterranean climate (Dsb) that averages 99 days with rain each year. Cloud cover varies from an average of 25 percent in July to 76 percent in January. Normal annual rain amounts to about 11 inches or 279 millimetres, including 34 inches or 86 centimetres of snow. The average relative humidity, calculated at 4 p.m.
Daily, is 42 percent, varying from 21 percent in July to 68 percent in December and January. The normal monthly daily average temperature ranges from about 24 F ( 4 C) in December to 67 F (19 C) in July. On average, highs reach 90 F (32 C) on 24 days annually and stay at or below the freezing mark on 31 days, while lows fall to or below 0 F ( 18 C) on an average of 11 evenings. The average first and last occurrences of freezing temperatures are September 2 and June 21, in the order given, allowing a burgeoning season of 72 days. In January 1950, amid a series of snowstorms the National Weather Service has identified as one of Oregon's top 10 weather affairs of the 20th century, about 32 inches (81 cm) of snow fell on Burns. During another top-10 event, which occurred in February 1933, the temperature at Seneca reached 54 F ( 48 C), the lowest ever recorded in Oregon. By highway, Seneca is about 45 miles (72 km) north of Burns in the Blue Mountains. At Burns itself, record temperatures since 1939 range from 30 F ( 34 C) on December 8, 2013, up to 107 F (42 C) on July 12, 2002; the record low maximum is 3 F ( 19 C) on January 6, 1982, and December 21, 1990, while the record high minimum is 73 F (23 C) on July 27 and 30, 1939. Climate data for Burns, Oregon (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1939 present) (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 The Harney County Arts in Education Foundation (HCAEF) exists to support music education and the performing, visual, and theater arts in Burns and the region.
The Portland Youth Philharmonic, which originated in Burns as the Sagebrush Symphony Orchestra, has performed in Burns in support of the HCAEF. Each April, Burns hosts the John Scharff Migratory Bird Festival and Art Show amid the annual spring migration of waterfowl and other birds through the area.
Named for a former manager of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the festival includes tours of the wetlands and close-by ranches as well as classes in topics such as birdhouse building, Harney County archeology, and bird sketching. In June, the High Desert Fiddlers host the Country Music Jamboree at the Harney County Fairgrounds on the edge of Burns.
The Harney County Fair is held annually in September at the Harney County Fairgrounds.
The Harney County Historical Museum in Burns offers displays of relics, documents, and photographs from the region's past.
Burns has a mayor council government. Jerry Woodfin, one of seven propel members of the council, is the mayor. The city's enhance works department, consisting of a director and four full-time workers, maintains the water lines, sewers, and streets of Burns.
The police department includes a chief of police, an office assistant, and three full-time officers who work for Hines as well as Burns.
City officers and employees include a town/city manager, town/city clerk, municipal judge doubling as the utilities clerk, and an office assistant. A tribal council governs the Burns Paiute Tribe, immediately northwest of Burns.
The Harney County Courthouse is in Burns.
Harney County voters in 2012 voted heavily Republican.
3 provides enhance education in Burns and Hines at Henry L.
Slater Grade School in Burns, Hines Middle School, and Burns High School. The precinct sponsors the Silvies River Charter School, which offers a home-school program for kindergarten through second undertaking and an online curriculum for older students. Formed in 1903 by the Ladies Afternoon Club, the Harney County Library in Burns has grown from an initial compilation of 12 books to more than 30,000 items in 2013.
The weekly Burns Times-Herald is the only journal in the city. In 2006, five members of the Times-Herald staff formed Survival Media LLC, which bought the journal from its former out-of-state owners.
Burns Municipal Airport provides general aviation services. The airport, with 5,100 feet (1,600 m) of lighted runway, is 6 miles (10 km) east of the city. Pony Express provides air freight service. Public Oregon Intercity Transit (POINT) is an intercity bus fitness that includes service between Bend and Ontario, Oregon.
It departs from Burns once daily in each direction. The buses are wheelchair accessible, can seat up to 20 passengers, and can be used for package bringy as well as enhance transport. Harney District Hospital in Burns is a general medical and surgical hospital with 20 patient beds. HDH Family Care and Mountain Sage Medical operate medical clinics in the city. The Burns Hines VA Clinic in Burns provides general medical services to military veterans. Emergency medical services include Air - Link Critical Care Transport and Life Flight Network via helicopter or aircraft to the nearest appropriate treatment center. Norma Paulus former Oregon Secretary of State and former Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction Robert Smith former member of the United States House of Representatives and former Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives a b "City Council".
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