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Denison, 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. The Survey maps it on the Deer Park quadrangle. It stands 1,959 feet above sea level.

Denison within Spokane County

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

251 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Denison between 1992 and 2020, burning about 558 acres in total. 16 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 burning90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Recreation and ceremony30
Natural16
Other causes11
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Fireworks7
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 2008Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWALBRIDGE FINALE
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 HeadquartersMONROE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMILAN ROAD
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Denison: 15 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica, Quartz. 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
Cleveland QuarryStonePast Producer
DenisonMica, QuartzOccurrence
Bartlett QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hansen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Norlite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hazard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Keuster Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denison in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDenison$1,000Multiple large down branches reported on Social Media. A mobile home roof was also damaged. Time estimated from radar.

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
Deer Park3.7 miles13
Chattaroy4.5 miles14
Hazard4.8 miles8
T Bridge Corner5.0 miles13
Hamann Corner5.5 miles14
Buckeye5.8 miles15
Milan6.9 miles14
Colbert7.7 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 DenisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988937The 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 1510912. 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.