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Barstow, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Ferry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99141. It stands on Hodgson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orient quadrangle. 66 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Barstow within Ferry County

On record in Barstow

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Barstow grew from 59 to 66 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
201059
202066+7 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Barstow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,329 acres in total. 51 started naturally. 1 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
Natural51
Debris and open burning20
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 1994Natural4.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDJ BARREL
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Roosevelt National Recreation AreaKETTLE RIVER CG
26 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOT WHEELS
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLAKIN FLAT
16 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFLAT CREEK SLASH
13 September 1997Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestBANGS MOUNTAIN II
9 August 2020Natural2.0 acresNortheast Region-Department of Natural ResourcesSACKIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ferry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Barstow: 24 occurrences, 15 prospects, 8 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Graphite, Zinc. 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
Copper ButteCopper, Silver, GoldProspectBornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Copper ButteCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrence
DefenderZinc, Silver, Gold, CopperProspect
Department of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Doren ClaimUraniumOccurrence
DreisselSilicaPast Producer
Easter SundayGold, Antimony, Copper, SilverProducerBoulangerite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Glasgow LakesStone, DimensionPast Producer
GlobeGold, Silver, Zinc, CopperProspectVein
Globe MineCopper, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Ferry County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barstow in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 debris flow, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999Heavy RainBarstow$5,000Over 1.50''of rain fell in a 12 hour period in Barstow and Republic.
May 2023FloodBarstow$500Small streams doubled flows and overtopped the road. Minor washouts observered.
May 2018Debris FlowBarstow$500A small debris flow deposited rock onto the southbound lane of Highway 395 near Orient. Traffic was delayed as the rock was removed.
April 1998HailBarstow-1 inch hail

Every storm recorded in Ferry 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
Boyds4.4 miles13
Dulwich5.7 miles14
Orient6.9 miles14
Harter10.1 miles12
Goldstake10.5 miles14
Beulah (historical)12.8 miles14
Laurier15.9 miles14
Danville24.4 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 BarstowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4865026The 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 1516168. 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.