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Green Bluff, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Colbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99005. It sits by Green Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Mead quadrangle. 697 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,290 feet above sea level.

Green Bluff within Spokane County

Population over time

2 figures

Green Bluff fell from 761 to 697 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
2010761
2020697-64 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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 Green Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 280 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 11 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
Debris and open burning62
Recreation and ceremony37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism11
Fireworks8
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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 2008Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRIDGEWAY STRIKE
8 September 2004Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNORA'S LAST
8 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning14 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 2008Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCLOVER PARK CAMEL
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Green Bluff: 15 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Deadman CreekAluminumProspect
Evergreen QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Gladding, Mcbean Silica QuarrySilica, MicaPast Producer
MeadPumicePast Producer
NoydFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Mount Spokane QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Building Supplies, Inc.ClayPast Producer
Fuher ProspectClayOccurrence
Spokane Area Clay DepositsClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Bluff in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011FloodGreen Bluff$25,000State Route 206 was undercut by Deadman Creek at mile post 14.5, which forced a temporary closure of the road. Only damage that occurred was along the shoulder of the roadway. Damage costs were estimated.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGreen Bluff-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
Peone2.8 miles19
Colbert3.7 miles15
Buckeye5.5 miles15
Mead6.1 miles15
Chattaroy6.3 miles14
Orchard Prairie7.0 miles19
Hamann Corner8.1 miles14
Dartford8.2 miles14

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 Green BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475183The 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 1512254. 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.