Hite, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Airway Heights census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99029. The Survey maps it on the Reardan East quadrangle.

Hite within Spokane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1945 USGS Reardan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Reardan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Reardan East quadrangle1:24000
1987 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Hite between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	2
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
2 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MCFARLANE
18 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 2013	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ESPANOLA DINNER
13 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	JACOB
10 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HALLETT
5 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Spokane County Fire Districts	JACOBS
3 August 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WRONG NAME MCFARLANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Hite: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Deep Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Galena Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hite Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed 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 Spokane County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hite in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2017: 2 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2017	Flood	Hite	$8,000,000	A series of rain storms and low elevation snow melt caused saturated soil conditions through out Spokane County through the second half of March. These conditions lead to numerous small stream and field flooding issues through out the county. Homes and buildings along the shore of Williams Lake and Newman Lake experienced flooding from high lake levels. In Mead a hillside began slowly sliding in a residential area necessitating the evacuation of two homes. Spokane County was included in a State of Emergency declaration issued by the state Governor. \|\|Twenty two roads in the county were washed out or at least temporarily closed due to flooding.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Hite	$2,000,000	Numerous trees were downed or snapped across Northern Spokane County including the communities of Deer Park, Chattaroy, Colbert, Mead, Nine Miles Falls, and Spokane north of Interstate 90 due to a west to east tracking outflow boundary. A second cell developed along the boundary producing quarter size hail over Five Mile Prairie and sent an outflow boundary north to south across the South Hill and Spokane Valley roughly thirty minutes after the initial gust front went through. A NWS employee stated winds associated with this boundary were less than 25 mph but witnessed a tree fall down. Due to its isolated nature, it is assumed that this tree was damaged from a storm two weeks earlier. Significant damage was observed from northwestern Spokane to Chattaroy to the Pend Oreille County border. The Riverside Mobile Home Park was hit hard for a second time in as many weeks and forced to evacuate. Numerous trees fell on homes. One home on North Echo Road suffered major structural damage. The nearby Eloika Lake Resort lost eight trees in the storm. The trees damaged a home, RVs, and vehicle. The resort which lost 48 trees in a storm ten days earlier was forced to shut down for the remainder of the summer.
April 2017	Flood	Hite	$500,000	Saturated soil conditions brought about by spring snow melt in March and periodic heavy rain in March and early April resulted in areas of small stream, field and basement flooding over parts of Spokane County. Numerous secondary roads were closed due to flooding on the roads and damage to the road beds.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Deep Creek	3.8 miles	12
Espanola	4.6 miles	13
Fairchild	6.2 miles	12
Medical Lake	8.1 miles	13
Lakeland Village	8.7 miles	13
Airway Heights	9.9 miles	12
Silver Lake	10.3 miles	13
Lyons	10.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511036. 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.