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Farmington, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Garfield-Oakesdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99128. The Survey maps it on the Farmington quadrangle. 131 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,641 feet above sea level.

Farmington within Whitman County

On record in Farmington

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Farmington fell from 146 to 131 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
2010146
2020131-15 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Farmington between 1995 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWEST LONE JACK
16 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsRUDDY
13 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencySKYLINE-2
7 August 1999Naturalunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencyOLDSHEEPCK
23 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPIDGEON HOLLOW
12 August 1999Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMINERAL MOUNTAIN
11 August 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencySKYLINE
11 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyMORRISON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitman County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Farmington: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mccleary ButteIronPast Producer
Stratton ButteSilicaOccurrence

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Walters4.7 miles12
Seltice5.1 miles11
Belmont6.3 miles9
Warner6.6 miles10
Eden7.0 miles9
Ladow7.5 miles13
Garfield7.6 miles9
Crabtree8.7 miles9

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 FarmingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1505702The 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 1531452. 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.