Asotin, Washington
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Asotin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99402. It stands on Asotin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Asotin quadrangle. 1,204 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 801 feet above sea level.
On record in Asotin
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 2 records
Full Gospel Churchlisted 1972
Grande Ronde River Bridgelisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresAsotin fell from 1,251 to 1,204 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 | 1,251 | |
| 2020 | 1,204 | -47 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1945 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Asotin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Asotin between 2003 and 2019, burning about 156 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Cottonwood Field Office | LARSON ROAD |
| 28 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 155 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | VOLLMER FIRE |
| 13 May 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | PARK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Asotin: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarkston Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Northwest Aggregates | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Tammany Creek Clay Occurrence No. 28 | Clay | Occurrence | Clay | |
| Borrow Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Hostettler Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Asotin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Clarkston Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mission | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Asotin in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Lightning | Asotin | $10,000 | A report of lightning causing a house fire in Asotin, WA at 9am on August 7th was received through social media. |
| August 1999 | Heavy Rain | Asotin | - | 0.80" of rain in 10 minutes. Small hail also. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Asotin | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Flood | Asotin | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Asotin | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerry | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Vineland | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Clarkston Heights | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Highland | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| West Clarkston | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Clarkston | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Grahams Landing | 9.4 miles | 9 | |
| Silcott | 9.5 miles | 10 |
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 Asotin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q168884 | 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 1503074. 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.





