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Chattaroy, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Deer Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99003. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chattaroy quadrangle. It stands 1,703 feet above sea level.

Chattaroy within Spokane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

268 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 268 fires within 5 miles of Chattaroy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 547 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 4 were 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
Debris and open burning89
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Recreation and ceremony33
Natural23
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Other causes8
Fireworks7
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
8 September 2004Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNORA'S LAST
8 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWILD ROSE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMILAN ROAD
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKONA
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOWENS LAKE
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersREGAL FIELD
4 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEER CREEK GET TOGETHER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Chattaroy: 19 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Aluminum. 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
DawnUraniumOccurrence
MilanAluminumOccurrence
MilanDiatomiteOccurrence
Spokane Area Clay DepositsClayOccurrence
Bartlett QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hansen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mount Spokane QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Norlite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chattaroy in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindChattaroy$10,000Downed power lines and outages in Spokane County 4 Miles SW of Chattaroy.
June 2022Heavy RainChattaroy-Amount of 0.50 rain fell in 20 minutes.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindChattaroy-A tree was blown down near a home.

Every storm recorded in Spokane 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
Buckeye3.4 miles15
Colbert4.4 miles15
Denison4.5 miles13
Hamann Corner5.4 miles14
Milan5.5 miles14
Green Bluff6.3 miles15
Deer Park7.7 miles13
Dartford7.9 miles14

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 ChattaroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5087915The 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 1512083. 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.