Country Homes, Washington
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Spokane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99218. The Survey maps it on the Spokane NW quadrangle. 6,251 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,952 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCountry Homes grew from 5,841 to 6,251 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 | 5,841 | |
| 2020 | 6,251 | +410 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1901 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Spokane NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Spokane NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1974 USGS Spokane NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Spokane NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1987 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
421 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 421 fires within 5 miles of Country Homes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,492 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 30 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 126 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 84 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 77 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Fireworks | 19 |
| Smoking | 18 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Other causes | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PEONE |
| 8 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HOT PURSUIT |
| 7 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 1996 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MAG CAMP |
| 5 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | ESMERALDA |
| 5 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | COURTLAND |
| 5 September 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LITTLE SPOKANE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 38 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Country Homes: 31 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bigelow Gulch | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Dartford | Manganese | Occurrence | 1943 | |
| Evergreen Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Mead | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Mead Reduction Plant | Aluminum, Contained or Metal | Producer | 1942 | |
| Building Supplies, Inc. | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Center and Perry St. Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Fivemile Prairie | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| McKinley | Silica | Prospect | ||
| Mead | Silica | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Country Homes in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Country Homes | $200,000 | A strong thunderstorm produced in the neighborhood of one inch of rain and large amounts of pea size hail over portions of Northwest Spokane between 1900PDT and 2000PDT. The bulk of the precipitation fell within 30 to 45 minutes causing drainage systems to become overwhelmed. This resulted in several low crossings of highway 291 between Division Street and Nine Mile Road to quickly flood with anywhere from six inches to a foot and a half of water. Roughly forty basements in the area also became flooded with several inches of water. In the Indian Trails area where the terrain is steep, as much as three inches of water was observed flowing down the streets and carved out two to four foot trenches on a steep embankment going through the neighborhood park. According to city officials, the city's sewer infrastructure did not sustain any damage however several public properties submitted claims due to water damage in their basements. Twenty-five residents submitted claims with the city with an additional ten to twenty properties assumed to have gone through private insurance companies. |
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Country Homes | $20,000 | A member of the public reported a tree downed on a house on Indian Trail Road in Northwest Spokane. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Country Homes | - | Personal weather station recorded 65.3 mph in the 5 Mile area of Spokane. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairwood | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Town and Country | 1.7 miles | 18 | |
| Dartford | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Mead | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Hillyard | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Orchard Prairie | 4.9 miles | 19 | |
| Seven Mile | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Hamann Corner | 5.8 miles | 14 |
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 Country Homes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1510510 | 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 1512118. 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.








