BlockAlbion, Washington
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Pullman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99102. The Survey maps it on the Colfax South quadrangle. 550 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,247 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAlbion fell from 579 to 550 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 | 579 | |
| 2020 | 550 | -29 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1910 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Colfax South quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Albion: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Union Center Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Glaspy Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albion in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2001 | Hail | Albion | $10,000 | A single thunderstorm which moved north-northeast between Colfax and Pullman produced several reports of large hail. Golfball-sized hail at the Whitman County Landfill (4 SSW Albion) did extensive damage to the aluminum canopy on a truck there. A trained spotter in Albion reported dime-sized hail. A farmer located on Clear Creek Road (9 NNE Albion) reported quarter-sized hail which was deep enough to cover the ground. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Albion | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Flood | Albion | - | The USGS River Gage on the South Fork of the Palouse River at Pullman recorded a rise to the the Flood Stage of 7.0 feet at 10:30 PM PDT on April 9th. The river level stabilized and fluctuated just at or slightly below Flood Stage until 4:00 AM April 10th and then receded.||This was a minor and short lived flood event which mainly impacted bottom lands and pedestrian walkways through park land along the river. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Shawnee | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Parvin | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Kitzmiller | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Union Center | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Pullman | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Risbeck | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Ewartsville | 6.7 miles | 12 |
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 Albion | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q661836 | 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 1511954. 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.
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.