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Deer Park, Washington

13 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 99006. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Deer Park quadrangle. 4,383 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,123 feet above sea level.

Deer Park within Spokane County

Population over time

2 figures

Deer Park grew from 3,652 to 4,383 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
20103,652
20204,383+731 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Deer Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 396 acres in total. 20 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 burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony22
Natural20
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Other causes6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMONROE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOWENS LUMBER
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSHELTER
7 September 2012Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDALTON
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKONA
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRAILROAD MYSTERY
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWALLBRIDGE RUCKUS
4 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersENOCH TWO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Deer Park: 8 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
ClaytonClayProducer
Cleveland QuarryStonePast Producer
Deer ParkAluminumOccurrence
Jansen Iron ProspectIronOccurrence
Hazard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bartlett QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hansen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer Park in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 2 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
May 1997Tornado (F1)Deer Park$350,000nws survey team concluded f1 tornado touched down and pulled up numerous times as it traveled from Pruffer and Wallbridge in se stevens county to near riverside in spokane county
June 2017Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$50,000A tree was blown down onto a house near Deer Park.
July 2002LightningDeer Park$6,000Lightning caused extensive damage to the electrical system of one of the wells in Deer Park's water system.
January 2014FloodDeer Park$1,000Minor urban flooding reported in and around Deer Park. Residence living on 2nd Avenue indicated water over the roadway and some water seeping into a basement of a building. Large puddles covering other roads around town, but all were passable without any closures reported. Damage costs were estimated.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindDeer Park$500A 15 feet tall maple tree with a 4 to 5 inch diameter downed from wind. Deer Park airport reported a max gust of 35 MPH.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindDeer Park-WSDOT reported multiple trees down on US 395 between the two roundabouts near Deer Park. Time estimated by radar archive.
July 2023HailDeer Park-Hail of varying sizes of dimes to half dollars reported East and Southeast of Elk.
July 2022HailDeer Park-Three quarter inch hail reported on social media.
June 2015HailDeer Park-A member of the public reported 2.5 inches of pea to marble size hail at Prufer Crosscut road in Deer Park, WA.
June 2015HailDeer Park-An amateur radio operator reported 0.75 inch hail 8 miles west of Deer Park, WA.
March 2012FloodDeer Park-West Oregon Road was washed out between North Spotted Road and North Grove Road due to a plugged culvert.
July 1998Funnel CloudDeer Park-police spotted a funnel cloud near Deer Park
July 1997HailDeer Park-1 inch hail reported by a radio station
May 2003Thunderstorm WindDeer Park-no account filed
April 1996LightningDeer Park-no account filed

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
T Bridge Corner1.4 miles13
Denison3.7 miles13
Hazard5.7 miles8
Grays Landing7.3 miles13
Pocahontas Bay7.5 miles13
Chattaroy7.7 miles14
Milan7.7 miles14
Hamann Corner9.0 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 Deer ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515762The 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 1512143. 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.