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Latah, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rockford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99018. It stands on Cove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Latah quadrangle. 185 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,510 feet above sea level.

Latah within Spokane County

On record in Latah

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Latah grew from 183 to 185 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
2010183
2020185+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

What the histories say of this town

442 words

1 chapter about Latah from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
An Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of WashingtonAn Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of Washington (1900)442 words

Fires near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Latah between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,096 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
15 September 2002Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 July 2003Smoking1,080 acresTurnbull National Wildlife RefugeWATT ROAD
13 July 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 June 2004Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTEKOA TORCH
21 April 2015Debris and open burning5.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBIBBIE
5 March 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresNortheast Region-Department of Natural ResourcesBIBBIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Latah: 9 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
LatahFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Pottratz PitClayPast Producer
Schindler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
TekoaClayOccurrence
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fieser PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Latah QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Latah in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 hail. 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
August 2022HailLatah$200,000A strong thunderstorm dropped hail ranging from half an inch to 2.75. Most hail reports ranged from 0.75 to 1.5. A 2.75 size was reported around Newman Lake at 1700PST. It traveled from Albion WA to Newman Lake WA around 1525PST to 1715PST. It damaged at least 15000 acres of crops, broke windows and damaged siding of homes in Liberty Lake, and dented numerous vehicles.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Rahm2.8 miles12
Wallner5.2 miles12
Stringtown5.5 miles12
Waverly5.7 miles12
Spring Valley6.9 miles11
West Fairfield7.1 miles12
Fairfield7.2 miles12
Darknell10.1 miles12

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 LatahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q937129The 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 1512380. 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.