Basque, Oregon

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Basque, Oregon
Unincorporated community
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Basque
Coordinates: 42°24′39″N117°52′07″W / 42.41083°N 117.86861°W / 42.41083; -117.86861
Country United States
State Oregon
County Malheur
Elevation
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4,459 ft (1,359 m)
Time zone UTC-8 (Pacific)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-7 (Pacific)
Area code 541
GNIS feature ID1136038 [1]

Basque is an unincorporated, tiny gated community in Malheur County, Oregon, United States. [1] It lies along U.S. Route 95 about halfway between Burns Junction and McDermitt. [2] Basque is the site of a sheriff's substation and an Oregon State Department of Transportation highway maintenance yard. There are no other businesses or services at Basque, which is separated from the highway by a chain-link fence with controlled gate access, and housing is there for employees of those two agencies only.

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History

Basque migrants, many of them sheepherders, settled in remote parts of southeastern Oregon between the 1880s and the 1930s. [3]

Education

Basque is in the McDermitt School District. [4] [5] The district sends its students to McDermitt Combined School of the Humboldt County School District of Nevada. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Basque, Oregon
  2. ↑ Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. p. 87. ISBN   0-89933-347-8.
  3. ↑ Etulain, Richard. "Basques". The Oregon Encyclopedia. Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  4. ↑ Geography Division (December 18, 2020). 2020 Census - School District Reference Map: Malheur County, OR (PDF) (Map). United States Census Bureau. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved March 23, 2025. - Text list - Compare to the highway map.
  5. ↑ "OREGON TRANSPORTATION MAP Showing Federal Functional Classification of Roads MALHEUR COUNTY Sheet 7 of 10" (PDF). Oregon Department of Transportation . Retrieved March 23, 2025. - Compare to the school district map.
  6. ↑ "McDermitt". Malheur Education Service District. Retrieved March 23, 2025.


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