Biohazard Cleanup Near West Monument Monument, OR

Monument is a city in Grant County, Oregon, located near the confluence of the North and Middle Forks of the John Day River.

Its post office was established in 1874 and named for a nearby mountain or rock formation, and the city was incorporated on February 6, 1905.

The 2020 census counted 115 people in Monument, in 67 households, with a median age of 48.8 years, and all of its residents lived in rural areas.

Monument covers 0.51 square miles, all land, at an elevation of 2,024 feet, and is listed with ZIP code 97864.

By road, Monument is 110 miles southwest of Pendleton, about 64 miles northwest of John Day, and about 156 miles northeast of Bend.

The Monument School District's Monument School had a 7,000-square-foot science building for its environmental sciences curriculum, paid for by a federal grant of about 500,000 dollars, teaching students about the ecology of the local Ponderosa Pine forest and sagebrush steppe and the water quality and habitat of streams.

The school had over 100 students in 1997, but the decline of ranching and timber production brought the number of children down to 62 by the year 2000.

Annual federal timber payments to the city of Monument declined from 100,000 dollars in 1990 to 5,000 dollars in 2000.

In 2000, with a population of 165, Monument had a grocery store, restaurant, tavern, three churches, a senior center, a fire station, and the offices of the Columbia Power Electric Cooperative utility.

Monument has a steppe climate, with warm but not hot and dry summers and no average monthly temperature above 71.6 degrees Fahrenheit.