It is composed of seven villages: Bontăieni (Pusztatelek), Cetățele (Györkefalva), Dănești (Bajfalu), Negreia (Nyegrefalva), Plopiș (Nyárfás), Șișești, and Șurdești (Dióshalom).

In the interwar period, the teacher Pop Dariu (1877, Măgura Ilvei-1965) carried out a research on the existence of Romanian writings in more than 50 statuary churches.

At Dănești (formerly in Satu Mare County) he discovered a notebook where a book on Romanian history was copied after another manuscript from 1861 with an unidentified author.

The book was written in winter time by Gabor Poduț, rummaged at the local church, and ended on January 8, 1871.

[4] Surdești has a Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel belonging to the Romanian Greek-Catholic denomination and dates from the 18th century.