Suntex, Oregon

Suntex is an unincorporated community in Harney County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was established with the placement of a post office in the valley of Silver Creek west of Burns and north of U.S. Route 20.^[2]

Suntex, Oregon
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 43°35′27″N 119°37′49″W
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Harney
Elevation [1]	4,308 ft (1,313 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
Area code	541
GNIS feature ID	1129842[1]

The Suntex post office was set up in 1916 and closed in 1949, after which Suntex mail was handled through the post office in Riley. 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.^[3]

Education

The zoned K-8 school is Suntex Elementary School.^[4] The previous campus was destroyed in a 1978 fire.^[5]

High school students are zoned to Crane Union High School,^[6] of Harney County Union High School District 1J.^[7]

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.^[8] The Burns and Hines elementary districts and the Burns high school district ultimately combined into Harney County School District 3 in 1989.^[9]

Harney County is not in a community college district but has a "contract out of district" (COD) with Treasure Valley Community College.^[10] TVCC operates the Burns Outreach Center in Burns.^[11]