Ewan, Washington

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rock Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99171. It stands on Kamiache Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ewan quadrangle. It stands 1,739 feet above sea level.

Ewan within Whitman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1955 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Ewan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Rosalia quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ewan: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ewan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Schell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Whitman County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ewan in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ewan	$1,000	no account filed
June 2009	Flash Flood	Ewan	-	Mud and debris was observed flowing over Highway 23. In addition, water was observed over the road at Rock Lake Road and Glorfield Road.

Every storm recorded in Whitman 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lavista	2.4 miles	5
Lancaster	7.0 miles	6
Saint John	8.3 miles	5
Juno	8.5 miles	5
Huntley	10.3 miles	5
Revere	10.6 miles	5
Lamont	10.8 miles	5
Kenova	11.5 miles	5

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 Ewan	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5418888	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 1510956. 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.

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.