John Day, Oregon John Day, Oregon John Day State Oregon John Day is a town/city located about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Canyon City in Grant County, Oregon, at the intersection of U.S.
The town/city was titled for the close-by John Day River, which had been titled for a Virginian member of the 1811 Astor Expedition, John Day. The town/city was incorporated in 1901. As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a total populace of 1,744, making it the biggest city in the county.
6 John Day, Clatsop County Trowbridge, was inside the limits of the present town/city of John Day.
The Eastern Oregon improve was not as quick to expanded as neighboring Canyon City, which was the governmental center of county and center of the bustling quarrying industry in the area.
Incrementally, small-town merchants and inhabitants began relocating to John Day primarily each time after harsh fires in Canyon City: the Grant County Courthouse burned in 1870, Chinatown burned in 1885, and fires in 1898 and 1937 devastated Canyon City's downtown. John Day about 1885 The first postal service at "John Day City" was established in 1865, but was discontinued in 1871.
It was reestablished in 1879 with the name John Day. In April 1900, a small-town committee was elected, and the Oregon Legislature allowed an Act incorporating the town/city of John Day on February 23, 1901. The biggest part of early John Day was composed of the Chinese community, generally called Tiger Town. In 1882, the Advent Christian Church in John Day had 547 members, 382 of whom were Chinese (and a number of Chinese inhabitants were interred in the Seventh Day Adventist Cemetery). By 1887, John Day was home to nearly 1,000 Chinese immigrants, who had been thriving to the region by a gold rush 20 years earlier, many of whom were displaced by the 1885 fire in Canyon City. In the 1970s the building, then the property of the town/city of John Day, was converted into a exhibition called the Kam Wah Chung & Co.
John Day is at an altitude of 3,087 feet (941 m). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.87 square miles (4.84 km2), all land. John Day is surrounded by the Strawberry Mountains to the south and the Blue Mountains to the east.
The bedrock geology of the John Day region is a complex assemblage of Permian to Triassic age metamorphic and igneous rocks which were added to the North American continental margin by tectonic activeness in the Triassic and Jurassic Periods.
The region around John Day contains some of the most meaningful paleontological resources known.
Even with its warm, dry climate and inland location, John Day has as an oceanic climate (Cfb) as stated to the Koppen climate classification system.
Climate data for John Day, OR Average rain days 11 9 11 11 11 8 3 4 5 8 11 11 103 As of the census of 2010, there were 1,744 citizens , 794 homeholds, and 450 families residing in the city.
There were 895 housing units at an average density of 478.6 per square mile (184.8/km2).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 94.4% White, 0.5% African American, 1.5% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.0% from other competitions, and 1.8% from two or more competitions.
There were 794 homeholds of which 26.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.4% were married couples living together, 11.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 43.3% were non-families.
37.9% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 18.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.13 and the average family size was 2.79. The median age in the town/city was 42.9 years.
22.2% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 7.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22.6% were from 25 to 44; 25.5% were from 45 to 64; and 22% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1821 citizens , 734 homeholds, and 472 families residing in the city.
There were 846 housing units at an average density of 450.4 per square mile (173.7/km ).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 96.92% White, 1.15% Native American, 0.38% Asian, 0.16% Pacific Islander, 0% African American, 0.55% from other competitions, and 0.82% from two or more competitions.
There were 734 homeholds out of which 32.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.0% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 35.6% were non-families.
31.9% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 12.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.40 and the average family size was 3.01. In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.0% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 23.2% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $31,953, and the median income for a family was $34,327.
About 13.0% of families and 17.5% of the populace were living below the poverty line, including 21.0% of those under the age of 18 and 22.4% of those 65 and older. Other employments, such as in recreation, community care, and government (the command posts of the Malheur National Forest administration is positioned in John Day) now account for a majority of jobs in the city.
John Day, Clatsop County The unincorporated improve of John Day in Clatsop County, Oregon The John Day place name occurs also in Clatsop County, Oregon.
The unincorporated improve of John Day is encompassed inside the 97103 ZIP Code for Astoria.
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Entry for John Day in the Oregon Blue Book Grant County Chamber of Commerce entry for John Day Municipalities and communities of Grant County, Oregon, United States
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John Day, Oregon - Populated places established in the 1860s - Cities in Oregon - Cities in Grant County, Oregon - 1865 establishments in Oregon
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