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Grand Coulee, Washington

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Grand Coulee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99133. It lies near Rattlesnake Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Electric City quadrangle. 972 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,483 feet above sea level.

Grand Coulee within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Grand Coulee fell from 988 to 972 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
2010988
2020972-16 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Grand Coulee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,617 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Fireworks12
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
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
19 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution227 acresLake Roosevelt National Recreation AreaSPRINGCANY
13 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreColville AgencyUSBR DUMP
12 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined230 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's Office230 SWITCH YARD FIRE
11 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreColville AgencyCOLUMBIA VIEW APT
7 August 1994Naturalunder an acreLake Roosevelt National Recreation AreaEDENHARBOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Grand Coulee: 14 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum. 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 - RosauerMolybdenum, Silver, Gold, BismuthProducerGalena, Molybdenite, Pyrite
Black-RosauerSilver, Bismuth, Gold, Lead, MolybdenumPast Producer
Electric CityMolybdenum, Bismuth, Gold, Beryllium, SilverProspect
PetersonUraniumOccurrence
State Pit Ps-T-158StonePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black Rosauer-Electric CityMolybdenumOccurrence
Hope No. 1Silver, GoldProspect
Silver QueenSilverProspect
Allied Concrete Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Delano Heights1.0 miles7
East Heights1.3 miles16
Electric City1.9 miles7
Osborne4.1 miles7
Hanson14.7 miles6
Hartline18.2 miles6
Fordair25.4 miles7
Odair26.8 miles8

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 Grand CouleeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1508192The 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 1512249. 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.