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Inchelium, 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 Hall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Inchelium quadrangle. 431 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,568 feet above sea level.

Inchelium within Ferry County

Population over time

2 figures

Inchelium grew from 409 to 431 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
2010409
2020431+22 (+5%)

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

328 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Inchelium between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,586 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 20 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
Natural42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Recreation and ceremony31
Arson/incendiarism20
Fireworks18
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Other causes6
Smoking5

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/undetermined19,005 acresColville AgencyINCHELIUM HIWAY
6 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Roosevelt National Recreation AreaMILE 60
5 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreColville AgencyHALL CREEK II
4 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColville AgencyLOWER HUD
3 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 2005Debris and open burning890 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMARTIN ROAD
28 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreColville AgencyINCH DUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ferry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 184 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 184 workings within 5 miles of Inchelium: 83 occurrences, 61 unknowns, 23 prospects, 13 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

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inchelium in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 tornado. 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
April 2008Tornado (EF0)Inchelium-A brief tornado touched down six miles southwest of Kettle Falls.

Every storm 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
Impach2.2 miles10
Meteor5.1 miles8
Covada5.3 miles10
Kewa7.9 miles10
Hazelmere (historical)15.0 miles10
Beulah (historical)20.6 miles14
Harter23.5 miles12
Boyds29.0 miles13

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 IncheliumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515753The 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 1521149. 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.