Granite, OR

Granite is a city in Grant County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The 2020 census counted 30 residents. The smaller cities were Shaniko (pop. First established by miners after the discovery of gold along Granite Creek on July 4, 1862, the area was originally called Granite Creek Falls. In 1942, during World War II, the War Production Board shut down gold mining in the United States via Order No. L-208. The board deemed gold mining to be non-essential to the war effort, and it wanted gold miners to mine "essential" metals instead. The through line in Granite is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Granite makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Granite is in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. Granite is 47 miles west of Baker City by highway and 346 miles east-southeast of Portland.