Electric City, Washington
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Grand Coulee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99123. The Survey maps it on the Electric City quadrangle. 956 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,650 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresElectric City fell from 968 to 956 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 | 968 | |
| 2020 | 956 | -12 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Electric City quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Electric City quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
33 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Electric City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34,388 acres in total. 4 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 | 11 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Natural | 17,049 acres | Spokane District | BARKER CANYON |
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area | SPRING CANYON |
| 19 September 2001 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 227 acres | Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area | SPRINGCANY |
| 13 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Colville Agency | USBR DUMP |
| 12 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 230 acres | Washington State Fire Marshal's Office | 230 SWITCH YARD FIRE |
| 11 September 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Colville Agency | COLUMBIA VIEW APT |
| 7 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area | EDENHARBOR |
| 31 August 2017 | Other causes | under an acre | Colville Agency | BUREAU GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Electric City: 11 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black - Rosauer | Molybdenum, Silver, Gold, Bismuth | Producer | Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite | |
| Black-Rosauer | Silver, Bismuth, Gold, Lead, Molybdenum | Past Producer | ||
| Electric City | Molybdenum, Bismuth, Gold, Beryllium, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Peterson | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| State Pit Ps-T-158 | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Black Rosauer-Electric City | Molybdenum | Occurrence | ||
| Hope No. 1 | Silver, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Silver Queen | Silver | Prospect | ||
| Banks Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Electric City in 1 storm report in 2012: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Electric City | $2,000 | Public reported a few trees completely blown down. Numerous tree limbs were snapped off trees that remain standing. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delano Heights | 1.1 miles | 7 | |
| Grand Coulee | 1.9 miles | 7 | |
| Osborne | 2.4 miles | 7 | |
| East Heights | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Hanson | 14.2 miles | 6 | |
| Hartline | 17.1 miles | 6 | |
| Fordair | 23.8 miles | 7 | |
| Odair | 25.3 miles | 8 |
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 Electric City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1506981 | 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 1504703. 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.




