Desert Aire, Washington
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mattawa-Royal City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99349. It lies near Goose Island. The Survey maps it on the Priest Rapids quadrangle. 2,288 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 568 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresDesert Aire grew from 1,124 to 2,288 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,124 | |
| 2010 | 1,626 | +502 (+45%) |
| 2020 | 2,288 | +662 (+41%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1917 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:62500
- 1979 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Desert Aire between 1999 and 2019, burning about 29,719 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24,650 acres | Southeast Region-Department of Natural Resources | 400 |
| 19 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 909 acres | Spokane District | BUCKSHOT |
| 15 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Columbia National Wildlife Refuge | RDI-14SW |
| 29 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 125 acres | Spokane District | HWY 243 COMMAND |
| 20 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,000 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | ALKALI CANYON |
| 17 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 33 acres | Spokane District | MILEMAKER 5 |
| 13 June 2019 | Other causes | under an acre | Spokane District | MATTAWA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Desert Aire: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Army | Pumice | Past Producer | 1957 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mattawa | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Schwana | 10.0 miles | 16 | |
| Beverly | 10.9 miles | 16 | |
| Jericho | 12.6 miles | 16 | |
| Wanapum Village | 12.7 miles | 16 | |
| Smyrna | 17.5 miles | 12 | |
| Royal City | 21.6 miles | 12 | |
| Low Gap | 22.2 miles | 16 |
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 Desert Aire | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2785000 | 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 1511877. 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.






