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Impach, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Colville Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99138. It stands on Cornstalk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Inchelium quadrangle. It stands 1,795 feet above sea level.

Impach within Ferry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

346 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 346 fires within 5 miles of Impach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,253 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 24 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 burning117
Natural52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Fireworks29
Recreation and ceremony28
Arson/incendiarism24
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Equipment and vehicle use16
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Other causes4
Smoking4

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 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreColville AgencyMOCCASIN REST HUD
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined482 acresColville AgencyFRY
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined19,005 acresColville AgencyINCHELIUM HIWAY
5 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreColville AgencyHALL CREEK II
4 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColville AgencyLOWER HUD
28 September 2005Debris and open burning890 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMARTIN ROAD
28 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreColville AgencyINCH DUMP
27 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreColville AgencyRICKARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ferry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 246 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 246 workings within 5 miles of Impach: 108 occurrences, 80 unknowns, 38 prospects, 16 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver. 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
AdvanceSilver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, GoldProspectVein
AdvanceSilver, Copper, Gold, Lead, ZincUnknown
Advance CabinSilver, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Antimony, CopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Silver, Sphalerite
Big ChiefTungsten, Silver, Lead, Molybdenum, ZincOccurrenceMolybdenite, Sphalerite, Wolframite
Big ChiefLead, Zinc, Molybdenum, Tungsten, SilverProspectVein
Black HawkLead, Antimony, Silver, Zinc, GoldOccurrenceVein
Black HawkIron, Antimony, Gold, Silver, ZincUnknown
Black HawkLead, Silver, Antimony, Zinc, GoldOccurrenceGalena, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Cold SpringMolybdenumOccurrenceMolybdenite
Cold SpringLead, Copper, Zinc, MolybdenumProspectVein

Every working recorded in Ferry 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
Inchelium2.2 miles10
Meteor3.0 miles8
Covada4.9 miles10
Kewa6.4 miles10
Hazelmere (historical)14.1 miles10
Beulah (historical)21.6 miles14
Harter24.5 miles12
Keller27.8 miles9

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 ImpachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6005775The 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 1521147. 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.