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Addy, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Chewelah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99101. It stands on Addy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Addy quadrangle. 210 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,640 feet above sea level.

Addy within Stevens County

Population over time

2 figures

Addy fell from 268 to 210 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
2010268
2020210-58 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Addy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,324 acres in total. 36 started naturally. None was 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
Natural36
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Other causes3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
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
8 September 2005Debris and open burning13 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters945
6 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSLIDE LINE
5 September 1995Natural10 acresColville National ForestSCHMID VALLEY VIEW
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreColville National Forest`INCIDENT 62
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDUNCAN
22 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPHILLEO SPECIAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Addy: 10 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 7 past producers, 7 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Copper, Magnesite. 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
FinelyCopper, Lead, SilverOccurrence
Jacobs FarmLimestone, DimensionUnknown
John Alby PropertyLead, Copper, Silver, ZincOccurrence
KrugCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrence
KrugCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Liberty CopperCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Liberty CopperCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Northwest Alloys Inc.Silica, MagnesitePlant1960, 1976
PlatsburgCopper, GoldOccurrence
Bundy PropertyCopper, LeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in Stevens County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Addy in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 flash flood. 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
July 1998WildfireAddy$50,000lightning sparked 3 small wildfires, about an acre in size, in the Colville National Forest.
July 2000Flash FloodAddy$20,000Over 1.8 inches of rain fell in less than one hour, washing out several driveways and submerging a bridge along a secondary roadway when a creek rose quickly from the heavy rain.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindAddy$1,000An emergency manager reported that a thunderstorm brought down trees and powerlines between Addy and Chewelah, WA.
May 2023HailAddy-Observer reported hail on social media. Other hail reports from the storm ranged from 1 to 1.5 inch near Addy.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindAddy-A trained spotter reported 4 large pine trees down 4 miles north northwest of Addy, Washington.
July 2000HailAddy-Marble to dime-sized hail covered the ground to a depth of up to five inches. The hail cover was so thick that it took until late the next morning for the hail to completely melt from the ground.

Every storm recorded in Stevens 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
Bluecreek2.7 miles11
Fairview6.2 miles14
Cozy Nook7.3 miles14
Arden7.5 miles10
Chewelah8.5 miles14
Schmidt (historical)9.7 miles9
Orin10.1 miles10
Bingville11.2 miles15

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 AddyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474840The 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 1515727. 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.