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Lamont, Washington

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rock Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99017. The Survey maps it on the Lamont quadrangle. 79 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,955 feet above sea level.

Lamont within Whitman County

Population over time

2 figures

Lamont grew from 70 to 79 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
201070
202079+9 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lamont between 1993 and 1995, burning about 1,349 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
23 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use1,000 acresTurnbull National Wildlife RefugeFREEWAY
18 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresSpokane DistrictWELL RD
9 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined340 acresSpokane DistrictSPRAGUE
20 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpokane DistrictSPRAGUE2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitman County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lamont: 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Whitman County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lamont in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 debris flow. 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
February 2014FloodLamont$600,000Numerous areas of northern and central Whitman County experienced flooding between the 12th and 14th. State route 23 was closed between Sprague and Saint John between mileposts 15 and 43 due to water over the roadway in several locations. Colfax, WA experienced heavy flooding closing Mill Street from Canyon to Spring which also included mileposts 0 to 1 of SR 272. Flood waters up to a foot were observed in portions of downtown Colfax. Water undercut part of the roadway on SR27 five miles south of Oakesdale washing out part of the northbound lane. Several homes in the community of Ewan were inundated with up to one foot of water.
February 2025FloodLamont-Heavy rain and rapid snow melt led to water over State Route 23 near Lamont. The Pullman Airport recorded 1.15 inches of rain.
February 2021Debris FlowLamont-A culvert failed leading to mud, water, and debris over State Route 23, at MP33 south of Lamont. The road was closed for clean up. No other reports of damage.

Every storm recorded in Whitman 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
Revere8.4 miles5
Ewan10.8 miles6
Lavista11.3 miles5
Lancaster17.4 miles6
Juno18.5 miles5
Winona18.5 miles10
Kenova18.7 miles5
Saint John18.7 miles5

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 LamontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1506099The 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 1506067. 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.