Elmer City, Washington
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Colville Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99124. It stands on Peter Dan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grand Coulee Dam quadrangle. 239 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresElmer City grew from 238 to 239 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 | 238 | |
| 2020 | 239 | +1 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1948 USGS Grand Coulee Dam quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Grand Coulee Dam quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Coulee Dam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Grand Coulee Dam quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
118 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Elmer City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36,978 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 14 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Fireworks | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Colville Agency | MANILA CR |
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Colville Agency | RAT RANCH |
| 5 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colville Agency | ELMER CITY TRAILER P |
| 28 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Colville Agency | ELMER CITY GUARDRAIL |
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area | SPRING CANYON |
| 22 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Colville Agency | REBECCA LK |
| 2 September 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 acres | Colville Agency | SEATONS GROVE |
| 13 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Colville Agency | USBR DUMP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Elmer City: 5 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum, Uranium, Copper, Silver, Zinc. 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-Electric City | Molybdenum | Occurrence | ||
| Coulee City Deposit | Aluminum | Occurrence | ||
| Peterson | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Rebecca | Copper, Silver, Zinc | Prospect | Chalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite | |
| Rebecca | Copper, Zinc, Silver | Unknown | ||
| Allied Concrete Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Consolidated Builders, Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Dept of Highways | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Dept of Highways | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Indian Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
2 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmer City in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 debris flow. 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elmer City | $5,000 | Downed pole and wires reported near state route 155. |
| January 2023 | Debris Flow | Elmer City | $1,000 | Peter Dan road closed after hillside sloughed onto road half a mile from Highway 155. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lone Pine | 1.2 miles | 16 | |
| Koontzville | 1.3 miles | 10 | |
| Seatons Grove | 1.8 miles | 10 | |
| Mason City | 2.3 miles | 16 | |
| Coulee Dam | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Mason City (historical) | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Belvedere | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Nespelem | 11.7 miles | 10 |
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 Elmer City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1507773 | 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 1512189. 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.






