Burns is a city in and the
county seat
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of
Harney County
Harney County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,495, making it the sixth-least populous county in Oregon. The county seat is Burns. Established in 1889, the county is named in h ...
, in the
U.S. state
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of
Oregon
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. According to the
2010 census, the population was 2,806. Burns and the nearby city of
Hines are home to about 60 percent of the people in the sparsely populated county, by area the largest in Oregon and the ninth largest 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
The Harney Basin is an endorheic basin in southeastern Oregon in the United States at the northwestern corner of the Great Basin. One of the least populated areas of the contiguous United States, it is located largely in northern Harney County, ...
was the largest of many depressions in which lakes formed in southeastern Oregon during the late
Pleistocene
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. Remnants of an ancient lake that reached as far north as Burns are at the center of the
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located roughly south of the city of Burns in Oregon's Harney Basin. Administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the refuge area is roughly T-shaped with the sout ...
, south of the city.
Northern Paiutes or their ancestors, who were
hunter-gatherers, have lived in the region for thousands of years. Since the arrival of Euro-Americans in the 19th century, cattle ranching and other forms of agriculture have dominated land use in the area. In 1930, logging in the mountains north of Burns led to the creation of Hines, a lumber
company town, and the timber industry remained important to the local economy until the 1990s. In addition to ranching, a variety of private and public enterprises support the Burns–Hines economy in the 21st century. Annual events include a migratory bird festival, the county fair, and a country music jamboree.
History
Tribal
Archeologists have found evidence of human habitation in the general vicinity of Burns from as early as 10,000 years ago. Members of the contemporary
Burns Paiute Tribe of Harney County, descended mainly from the Wadatika band of Paiutes, were hunter-gatherers throughout central and southern Oregon. The Wadatikas were named after the wada seeds collected as food from near Malheur Lake. Their territory covered about from the
Cascade Range to near
Boise
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and from the southern Blue Mountains to south of Steens Mountain. Scattered in the 19th century by clashes with white settlers and soldiers and through forced removal to distant reservations, some of the Paiutes eventually returned to Harney County.
In the 1930s, the Burns Paiute Tribe began buying land near Burns and holding tribal elections. By the late 1960s, the
tribe
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had adopted a constitution and tribal bylaws, and in 1972 the Burns Paiute formally became an independent tribe, eligible to enter into contracts with other governments and legal entities. The tribe owns the Burns Paiute Reservation, north of Burns, and individual members of the tribe own more than of land elsewhere in the county. In 1991, the tribe had about 350 members, and about 200 lived on the reservation.
Cities and ranches
After the arrival of Euro-American settlers in the 19th century, Burns was established in the 1880s. It was formally incorporated after Harney County's creation in 1889 through the splitting of
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into two counties. Early settler, merchant, and county commissioner George McGowan named the city after the Scottish poet
Robert Burns
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. By 1891, the community had stores, a post office, hotels, and other businesses. McGowan was the town's first postmaster.
In the 1920s, timber cutting and milling brought many newcomers to the region. In 1928, the
Edward Hines Lumber Company acquired from the
U.S. Forest Service the rights to cut timber in the Blue Mountains near
Seneca
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, north of Burns. After winning the timber contract, the Hines Company built the
Oregon and Northwestern Railroad between Burns and Seneca. Edward Hines, the company owner, built a lumber mill and
company town, incorporated as the City of Hines in 1930.
Timber and logging remained important to the local economy until the 1990s, when the area's last lumber mill closed for lack of timber.
Cattle ranching in the region began as early as the 1860s and expanded after passage of the
Desert Land Act
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of 1877.
The act promoted development of arid and semi-arid public land in the western United States by making 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. Of this, about 65 percent came from cattle sales, 29 percent from the sale of
alfalfa hay, and most of the rest from other crops and the sale of horses.
Geography
Harney County is the largest county in Oregon and the ninth largest in the United States. It covers about but has a total population of only about 7,600. Most of that population lives in Burns or
Hines, about southwest of Burns. Burns had about 2,800 residents in 2010
and Hines about 1,600,
for a total of 4,400, nearly 60 percent of the county population.
![Silvies river at Burns](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Silvies_river_at_Burns.jpg)
The city is east of Bend, and west of
Ontario, Oregon
Ontario is the largest city in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. It lies along the Snake River at the Idaho border. The population was 11,366 at the 2010 census. The city is the largest community in the region of far eastern Oregon, also k ...
, on
U.S. Route 20
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at its intersection with
U.S. Route 395
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. Burns is about south of
Pendleton.
Oregon Route 78 runs between Burns and communities to the southeast including
Crane,
Princeton
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, and
Burns Junction, about away. A fourth highway,
Oregon Route 205, links the city to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, to the south, and to
Frenchglen, further south near Steens Mountain.
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of , all land.
Geology
Burns is in
southeastern Oregon
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near the northern edge of the arid
Harney Basin
The Harney Basin is an endorheic basin in southeastern Oregon in the United States at the northwestern corner of the Great Basin. One of the least populated areas of the contiguous United States, it is located largely in northern Harney County, ...
. The basin is part of the
High Lava Plains, a region dominated by erupting volcanoes in the late
Miocene
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, five to ten million years ago. Centered on the
Brothers Fault Zone
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, which runs southeast–northwest between
Steens Mountain
Steens Mountain is in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oregon, and is a large fault-block mountain. Located in Harney County, it stretches some north to south, and rises from the west side the Alvord Desert at elevation of about t ...
and
Bend, the High Lava Plains merge with the
Blue Mountains to the north and the
Basin and Range Province
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to the south.
Shallow basins formed by crustal stretching in the Basin and Range province were much wetter during the late
Pleistocene
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, up to 11,000 years ago, than they are in the 21st century. Lakes formed in these basins, including those in the southern part of the High Lava Plains. Among these, the largest depression was the Harney Basin, covering . Within the Harney Basin, ancient Malheur Lake—the 21st-century remnants of which include
Malheur Lake
Malheur Lake is one of the lakes in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located about southeast of Burns, the lake is marsh fed by the Donner und Blitzen River from the south and the Silvies Rive ...
,
Harney Lake
Harney Lake is a shallow alkali lake basin located in southeast Oregon, United States, approximately south of the city of Burns. The lake lies within the boundary of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and is the lowest point in the Blitzen ...
, and Mud Lake—covered and extended as far north as Burns. These remnant wetlands have become the
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located roughly south of the city of Burns in Oregon's Harney Basin. Administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the refuge area is roughly T-shaped with the sout ...
.
Climate
Burns has a
semi-arid
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continental climate (
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''BSk'') bordering upon a
continental Mediterranean climate
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(''Dsb'') that averages 99 days with precipitation each year. Cloud cover varies from an average of 25 percent in July to 76 percent in January. Normal annual precipitation amounts to about , including of snow.
The average relative humidity, measured 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 in December to in July.
On average, highs reach on 24 days annually and stay at or below the freezing mark on 31 days, while lows fall to or below on an average of 11 nights.
The average first and last occurrences of freezing temperatures are September 2 and June 21, respectively, allowing a growing season of 72 days.
In January 1950, during a series of snowstorms the
National Weather Service
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has identified as one of Oregon's top 10 weather events of the 20th century, about of snow fell on Burns.
During another top-10 event, which occurred in February 1933, the temperature at Seneca reached , the lowest ever recorded in Oregon.
By highway, Seneca is about north of Burns in the Blue Mountains. At Burns itself, record temperatures since 1939 range from on December 8, 2013, up to on July 12, 2002; the record low maximum is on January 6, 1982, and December 21, 1990, while the record high minimum is on July 27 and 30, 1939.
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Demographics
As of the
census
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of 2010, there were 2,806 people, 1,280 households, and 720 families residing in the city. The
population density
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was . There were 1,490 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 92.2%
White
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, 0.3%
African American
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, 2.6%
Native American, 0.7%
Asian, 0.7% from
other races
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, and 3.3% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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or
Latino
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of any race were 4.7% of the population.
There were 1,280 households, out of which 24.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.6% were
married couples living together, 11.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 43.8% were non-families. 36.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.13 and the average family size was 2.77.
The median age in the city was 44.5 years. 21.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 20.3% were from 25 to 44; 30.7% were from 45 to 64; and 18.9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 51.2% male and 48.8% female.
The median income for a household in the city was $32,877, and the median income for a family was $42,885. The
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the city was $19,567. About 19.6% of families and 20% of the population had incomes below the
poverty line
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.
Arts and culture
![Sagebrush Symphony, Burns, Oregon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Sagebrush_Symphony%2C_Burns%2C_Oregon.jpg)
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 HCAEF is raising funds in hopes of creating a performing arts and education center with a 600-seat auditorium, art gallery, film studio, and other facilities for students and the community. The
Portland Youth Philharmonic
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, 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 during the annual spring migration of waterfowl and other birds through the area. Pelicans, ducks, and raptors are among the birds frequenting the Harney Basin wetlands, a stopping place on the
Pacific Flyway
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. Named for a former manager of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the festival includes tours of the wetlands and nearby ranches as well as classes in topics such as birdhouse building, Harney County archeology, and bird sketching.
![Welcome Hotel Burns, Oregon 1930](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Welcome_Hotel_Burns%2C_Oregon_1930.jpg)
In June, the High Desert Fiddlers host the Country Music Jamboree at the Harney County Fairgrounds on the edge of Burns. Players of all skill levels take part in the jamboree, with stages in three fairground buildings. Admission is free; donations are accepted.
Concessions, dinners by reservation, camping in tents or recreational vehicles, and dancing are part of the entertainment. At other times of the year, the High Desert Fiddlers gather on Fridays at various locations around the city to hold public
jam sessions including folk, country,
bluegrass, and other music played on instruments such as the guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and
hammered dulcimer.
The Harney County Fair is held annually in September at the Harney County Fairgrounds. The fair, which lasts about a week, includes a
rodeo, carnival, talent show, horse races, parade, and other events, including those sponsored by
4-H
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and
Future Farmers of America
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.
The Harney County Historical Museum in Burns offers displays of relics, documents, and photographs from the region's past. Established in 1960 at the site of a former brewery, laundry, and wrecking yard, the museum is open five days a week (Tuesday through Saturday) from April through September and at other times by appointment.
Government
Burns has a
mayor–council government
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. Jerry Woodfin, one of seven elected members of the council, is the mayor.
The city's public 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 city manager, 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
tribe
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has its own police, court, and health and other services, including a tribal community center.
The Harney County Courthouse is in Burns. County officials include a judge and two commissioners, a clerk, treasurer, assessor, district attorney, justice of the peace, sheriff, and circuit court judge.
Harney County in 2020 voted heavily
Republican
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. At the federal presidential level,
Donald J. Trump won about 78 percent of Harney County's votes, and
Joseph R. Biden won about 20 percent.
Cliff Bentz, a
Republican
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, won election to represent Burns as part of
Oregon's 2nd congressional district
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in the
United States House of Representatives
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.
Ron Wyden and
Jeff Merkley, both
Democrats, serve the entire state of Oregon in the
United States Senate
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. Republican
Lynn Findley
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Biography
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represents District 30, including Burns, in the Oregon Senate. Republican
Mark Owens represents District 60, including Burns, in the Oregon House.
Education
Harney County School District 3 provides public education in Burns and Hines, at Henry L. Slater Grade School in Burns, Hines Middle School, and
Burns High School.
There is a branch of Silvies River Charter School in Burns, the Burns Learning Center.
Harney County is not in a community college district but Burns, along with the county, has a "contract out of district" (COD) with
Treasure Valley Community College
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Its service area is sections of Malheur County, Oregon, Malheur and Baker County, Oregon, Baker co ...
. TVCC operates the Burns Outreach Center in Burns.
The Harney County Library is located in Burns. Formed in 1903 by the Ladies Afternoon Club, the Harney County Library has grown from an initial collection of 12 books to more than 30,000 items in 2013. Library offerings include public computers, wireless Internet, video conferencing equipment, meeting spaces, and public programs, as well as books, magazines, newspapers, audio books, videos,
DVD
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s, and access to
Interlibrary Loan
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.
Media
The weekly ''
Burns Times-Herald'' is the only newspaper in the city. In 2006, five members of the ''Times-Herald'' staff formed Survival Media LLC, which bought the newspaper from its former out-of-state owners. According to Survival Media, this was the first staff buyout of a newspaper in Oregon. Two commercial radio stations,
KZHC-FM (92.7 FM) and
KZHC (1230 AM), are licensed to broadcast from Burns.
Infrastructure
Transportation
Burns Municipal Airport provides
general aviation
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services. The airport, with of lighted runway, is east of the city. Pony Express provides air freight service.
Haney County Senior & Community Services Center operates the Dial-A-Ride, which provides a local bus route between Burns and
Hines.
Public Oregon Intercity Transit
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(POINT) is an
intercity bus system that includes service between
Bend and
Ontario
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, 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 delivery as well as public transport.
Health care
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 AirLink Critical Care Transport and Life Flight Network via helicopter or airplane to the nearest appropriate treatment center.
Notable people
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Kellen Clemens
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–
NFL quarterback
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*
Norma Paulus
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– former
Oregon Secretary of State and former
Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction
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*
Susannah Scaroni, Paralympic athlete.
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Robert Smith – former member of the
United States House of Representatives
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and former Speaker of the
Oregon House of Representatives
*
Gene Timms - former
Oregon State Senator and business owner
References
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External links
Entry for Burnsin the ''
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