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Hunters, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hunters-Gifford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99137. It stands on Hunter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hunters quadrangle. It stands 2,044 feet above sea level.

Hunters within Stevens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Hunters between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,146 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 12 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
Natural47
Debris and open burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Fireworks7
Smoking1
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
6 September 2009Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLIGHTNING HUNTERS
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHUNTERS WOODPILE
26 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHARRY HARVEY
23 September 1998Recreation and ceremony1.8 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 1996Natural1.3 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColville AgencyLAWSON FLATS II
17 September 1996Debris and open burning5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
16 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColville AgencyLAWSON FLATS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Hunters: 17 occurrences, 10 prospects, 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BrooksSilver, Antimony, Copper, Gold, Lead, ZincProducerGalena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Tetrahedrite
ChlorideLead, SilverProspectVein
Deer Trail MonitorMolybdenum, Copper, GarnetPast ProducerContact Metamorphic
Deer Trail MonitorCopper, MolybdenumOccurrence
Deer Trial MonitorMolybdenum, CopperProspect
Deertrail-ReadIronOccurrence
HoodooSilver, Lead, Antimony, Copper, ZincOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Little FrankLead, Antimony, Copper, ZincOccurrenceGalena, Limonite, Malachite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
North MonitorLead, Zinc, SilverProspectReplacement
North MonitorSilver, Lead, ZincProspect

Every working recorded in Stevens County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunters in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 debris flow, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2022Heavy RainHunters-Amount of 0.70 of rain lasted 40 minutes.
March 2015Debris FlowHunters-Law enforcement reported a small rock slide near Hunters, Washington.
July 1996HailHunters-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stevens 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
Cedonia3.1 miles10
Fruitland3.2 miles10
Turk6.4 miles10
Enterprise7.2 miles10
Deer Trail7.8 miles10
Bissel8.0 miles10
Gifford13.4 miles10
Edendale (historical)14.0 miles10

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 HuntersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473455The 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 1512314. 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.