Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Harney
- Mayor
- Jerry Woodfin
- Total
- 3.55 sq mi (9.20 km )
- Land
- 3.55 sq mi (9.20 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 4,190 ft (1,280 m)
- Density
- 769/sq mi (296.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC-7 (Pacific)
- Fips code
- 41-09800
- Website
- City of Burns Oregon
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Encyclopedic overview
Burns is a city in and the county seat of Harney County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. According to the 2020 census, the population was 2,730. 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 tenth 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 was the largest of many depressions in which lakes formed in southeastern Oregon during 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Burns” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.