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This is a regular checkpoint on the Rose City Grand Tour.
At a population of 7 and in the middle of nowhere, it's a good place to get a bite
to eat, gas up (regular and diesel only) and to stretch your legs.
The folks here are very friendly.
Fields is an unincorporated community in Harney County, Oregon, United States,
located 112 miles south of Burns. It is the center of commerce for local ranches and
the largest community between Denio, Nevada, 22 miles to the south, and Frenchglen,
Oregon, 52.4 miles to the north.
In 1881, Charles Fields established a homestead where the community of Fields is
located today. Fields built a stagecoach roadhouse to serve the stage route between
Winnemucca, Nevada, and Burns. A one-room school was established at the site around
1900 with one teacher. Fields sold his business to John Smyth in 1911. The Fields
post office was opened two years later. The stone roadhouse was eventually remodeled
into a store and restaurant, and is still in use. The original stone horse barn has
partly collapsed, but remains in use. Today, the community of Fields consists of a
post office, store, cafe, gas station, school, camp ground, and a few houses. As of
2003, the school has two rooms and two teachers serving kindergarten through eighth
grade.
Ranching began in the area in 1869 when Whitehorse Ranch was established. The Rose
Valley Borax Company processed about 400 short tons of crystallized borax annually
from 1892 to 1902. Chinese workers collected alkali formed from evaporating spring
water containing 80 parts per million (ppm) borate.
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