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.
Population over time
2 figuresAddy 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 268 | |
| 2020 | 210 | -58 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1927 USGS Chewelah quadrangle1:125000
- 1930 USGS Chewelah quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Addy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Chewelah quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Addy quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
110 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | 945 |
| 6 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SLIDE LINE |
| 5 September 1995 | Natural | 10 acres | Colville National Forest | SCHMID VALLEY VIEW |
| 5 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Colville National Forest | `INCIDENT 62 |
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 26 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | DUNCAN |
| 22 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PHILLEO SPECIAL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 33 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finely | Copper, Lead, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Jacobs Farm | Limestone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| John Alby Property | Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Krug | Copper, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Krug | Copper, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Liberty Copper | Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Liberty Copper | Copper, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Northwest Alloys Inc. | Silica, Magnesite | Plant | 1960, 1976 | |
| Platsburg | Copper, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Bundy Property | Copper, Lead | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Wildfire | Addy | $50,000 | lightning sparked 3 small wildfires, about an acre in size, in the Colville National Forest. |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Addy | $20,000 | Over 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Addy | $1,000 | An emergency manager reported that a thunderstorm brought down trees and powerlines between Addy and Chewelah, WA. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Addy | - | Observer reported hail on social media. Other hail reports from the storm ranged from 1 to 1.5 inch near Addy. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Addy | - | A trained spotter reported 4 large pine trees down 4 miles north northwest of Addy, Washington. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Addy | - | 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. |
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.
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 Addy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3474840 | The 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.






