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Post Falls, Idaho

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Post Falls-Rathdrum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83854. It lies near Ford Rock. The Survey maps it on the Post Falls quadrangle. 38,485 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,182 feet above sea level.

Post Falls within Kootenai County

On record in Post Falls

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Post Falls grew from 27,574 to 38,485 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201027,574
202038,485+10,911 (+40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Post Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 257 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural18
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters515
7 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsCARPENTER
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTATESIDE SPOT
4 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsFLATS
29 September 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsBURLINGTON
26 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMEYERS RD 31
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsHIENE
16 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsROCK BLUFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kootenai County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Post Falls: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Murphy Brothers State Line PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cpi PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dalton Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fuller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kootenai County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Post Falls in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2000Thunderstorm WindPost Falls$15,000Wind gusts to 62 mph on Lake Coeur d'Alene.
May 2020Funnel CloudPost Falls-A brief funnel cloud was reported by the public in northeast Post Falls.
June 2018Funnel CloudPost Falls-A member of the public photographed a weak funnel cloud near Rathdrum. The funnel cloud quickly dissipated.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPost Falls-On the evening of the 21st, a severe thunderstorm gust front moved across Kootenai County at around 715pm to about 815pm PST. The hardest hit towns were Post Falls and Rathdrum. In the town of Post Falls, many large trees were down along with about 10,000 homes without power. There were a few homes damaged by the winds. The town of Rathdrum had about 200 homes without power and trees down.
August 2008HailPost Falls-no account filed
June 2006HailPost Falls-no account filed
June 2003HailPost Falls-no account filed
May 1996HailPost Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kootenai County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Grand Junction1.4 miles15
McGuire2.1 miles15
East Greenacres2.6 miles16
Coeur d'Alene Junction3.4 miles16
Pleasant View3.9 miles19
Haycrop4.5 miles16
State Line Village4.6 miles19
Howelltown4.9 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Post FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q737345The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397061. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.