Adrian, Washington

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Quincy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98848. The Survey maps it on the Palisades quadrangle.

Adrian within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Palisades quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Moses Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Adrian between 1993 and 2020, burning about 39,214 acres in total. 5 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	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
12 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Spokane District	NOACC
15 August 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	Spokane District	ROOSTER
29 July 1999	Natural	40 acres	Spokane District	SKOOKUM
28 July 2020	Other causes	under an acre	Spokane District	PALISADES
26 June 2017	Natural	37,267 acres	Spokane District	SUTHERLAND CANYON
26 June 2017	Natural	1,400 acres	Spokane District	STRAIGHT HOLLOW
26 June 2017	Natural	200 acres	Spokane District	WOOD
26 June 1994	Natural	20 acres	Spokane District	CHIEF

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Adrian: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Palisades Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adrian in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 hail. 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 2012	Hail	Adrian	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crater	10.2 miles	14
Quincy	11.3 miles	13
Trinidad	12.0 miles	8
Crescent Bar	12.9 miles	14
Winchester	14.3 miles	11
Naylor	18.4 miles	12
Ephrata	19.9 miles	12
Lakeview Park	21.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1510772. 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.