Hanson, Washington

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the Coulee City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99103. The Survey maps it on the Hartline quadrangle.

Hanson within Grant 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.

1953 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Hartline quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hanson: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Carolus Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wilson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Almira Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Burke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hartline 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 Grant County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanson in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2013: 2 hail, 2 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
September 2013	Flash Flood	Hanson	-	X-NE Road was covered by water and mud for approximately 100 to 150 yards and appeared to be deep in sections. It was likely that the road was impassable during the flash flood, but there were no reports of impacts during the event. Timing of the flash flood was estimated by radar.
June 2010	Hail	Hanson	-	Large hail from a thunderstorm accumulated to a depth of six inches.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Hanson	-	Very heavy rain led water running down the road and ditches along Highway Two.
June 2010	Hail	Hanson	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hartline	5.9 miles	6
Osborne	12.5 miles	7
East Heights	14.1 miles	16
Delano Heights	14.2 miles	7
Electric City	14.2 miles	7
Grand Coulee	14.7 miles	7
Fordair	15.3 miles	7
Odair	16.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511512. 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.