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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.

Elmer City within Okanogan County

Population over time

2 figures

Elmer 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.

YearPeople Change
2010238
2020239+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

118 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined22
Fireworks20
Debris and open burning15
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
Smoking1

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
9 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColville AgencyMANILA CR
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColville AgencyRAT RANCH
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville AgencyELMER CITY TRAILER P
28 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColville AgencyELMER CITY GUARDRAIL
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresLake Roosevelt National Recreation AreaSPRING CANYON
22 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresColville AgencyREBECCA LK
2 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minor12 acresColville AgencySEATONS GROVE
13 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreColville AgencyUSBR DUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okanogan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Black Rosauer-Electric CityMolybdenumOccurrence
Coulee City DepositAluminumOccurrence
PetersonUraniumOccurrence
RebeccaCopper, Silver, ZincProspectChalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite
RebeccaCopper, Zinc, SilverUnknown
Allied Concrete Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Consolidated Builders, IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Dept of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Dept of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Indian PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Okanogan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindElmer City$5,000Downed pole and wires reported near state route 155.
January 2023Debris FlowElmer City$1,000Peter Dan road closed after hillside sloughed onto road half a mile from Highway 155.

Every storm recorded in Okanogan 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
Lone Pine1.2 miles16
Koontzville1.3 miles10
Seatons Grove1.8 miles10
Mason City2.3 miles16
Coulee Dam2.5 miles16
Mason City (historical)3.3 miles16
Belvedere3.9 miles10
Nespelem11.7 miles10

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1507773The 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.