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Four Lakes, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Cheney-Medical Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99014. It lies near Wrights Hill. The Survey maps it on the Four Lakes quadrangle. 537 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,431 feet above sea level.

Four Lakes within Spokane County

Population over time

2 figures

Four Lakes grew from 512 to 537 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
2010512
2020537+25 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Four Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,518 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined48
Recreation and ceremony34
Debris and open burning27
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Power generation/transmission/distribution17
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism8
Fireworks7
Smoking5
Other causes4

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
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEAST 902
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBARTHOLOMEW VALVE
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMT CARMEL
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPOTTED STRIKEOUT
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPOTTED STRIKE
30 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKITE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Four Lakes: 34 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Travertine. 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
Cheney QuarryStoneProducer
Conner PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Fish LakeGemstoneOccurrence
Fish LakeSlate, DimensionPast Producer
Fish LakeUraniumOccurrence
Fish Lake PegmatiteFeldsparOccurrence
Silver LakeTravertineProspect
Giles & Peat QuarryGranitePast Producer
Keene QuarryGranitePast Producer
Medical Lake, County QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Four Lakes in 2 storm reports in 2005: 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2005HailFour Lakes-On the evening of May 17th, a line of thunderstorms moved across Spokane County. One severe storm dropped up to one inch in diameter hail in a very narrow swath from Four Lakes to just east of Airway Heights. Only one thousand dollars was estimated for crop damage.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFour Lakes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spokane 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
Silver Lake3.0 miles13
Hayford3.5 miles11
Medical Lake4.7 miles13
Scribner4.9 miles11
Marshall5.0 miles17
Cheney5.2 miles9
Airway Heights5.7 miles12
Hazelwood5.8 miles12

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 Four LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5475276The 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 1512225. 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.