Suntex is an
unincorporated community
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in
Harney County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Oregon
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. It was established with the placement of a post office in the valley of
Silver Creek west of
Burns
Burns may refer to:
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People
* Burns (surname), list of people and characters named Burns
** Burns (musician), Scottish record producer
Places in the United States
* Burns, ...
and north of
U.S. Route 20
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.
The Suntex post office was set up in 1916 and closed in 1949, after which Suntex mail was handled through the post office in
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. W. F. Sturges, the first postmaster at Suntex, said that postal authorities had assigned the name "Suntex", which had no local significance, for reasons he was unaware of.
Education
The zoned
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* K-8 school, a type of school that includes kindergarten and grades one through eight
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is Suntex Elementary School. The previous campus was destroyed in a 1978 fire.
High school students are zoned to
Crane Union High School
Crane Union High School is a public high school in Crane, Oregon, United States. It is a boarding school that serves students from a large geographic area.
Its district is known as the Harney County Union High School District 1J, and covers much ...
, of Harney County Union High School District 1J.
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A 1975 proposal to merge the Suntex and Double O districts along with the elementary school districts of Burns and Hines, as well as the Burns high school district, was turned down by voters. The Burns and Hines elementary districts and the Burns high school district ultimately combined into Harney County School District 3 in 1989.
Harney County is not in a community college district but has a "contract out of district" (COD) with Treasure Valley Community College. TVCC operates the Burns Outreach Center in Burns.
References
Unincorporated communities in Harney County, Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon
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