Laurier, Washington
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Ferry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99146. The Survey maps it on the Laurier quadrangle. 4 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,654 feet above sea level.
On record in Laurier
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 1 record
U.S. Inspection Station-Laurier, Washingtonlisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresLaurier grew from 1 to 4 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 4 | +3 (+300%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1936 USGS Marcus quadrangle1:96000
- 1942 USGS Marcus quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Orient quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Orient quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Okanogan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Okanogan quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Laurier quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Republic quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Laurier quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
37 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Laurier between 1992 and 2020, burning about 223 acres in total. 27 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | IMPERIAL WAY |
| 5 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Colville National Forest | RICHARD'S BIG TREE |
| 5 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Colville National Forest | WEDGE |
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Colville National Forest | LAURIER |
| 2 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Colville National Forest | GROUSE MOUNTAIN |
| 19 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | ELK |
| 15 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Colville National Forest | MARSHMELLOW FIRE |
| 15 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Colville National Forest | OWL MTN. |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 59 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Laurier: 29 prospects, 22 occurrences, 7 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Eagle | Gold, Silver, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Carl Sanstrom | Gold, Antimony, Copper, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Comstock | Copper, Silver, Gold | Prospect | Vein | |
| Iron Mask | Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Iron Mask | Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead | Prospect | ||
| Laurier | Asbestos | Occurrence | Chrysotile | |
| Little Giant | Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver | Prospect | Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite | |
| Little Giant | Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| McKinley | Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper | Prospect | Vein | |
| Montana and Washington | Copper, Gold, Silver | Prospect | Vein |
Storms near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laurier in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Flood | Laurier | $780,000 | Numerous roads in Ferry County were closed due to flooding and debris flows through the second half of March due to spring snow melt and periodic heavy rain. Ferry County was included in a Washington State State of Emergency declaration due to widespread flooding issues. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Laurier | - | Owl Mountain Raws reported 0.59 of rain. Other raws in the area recorded 0.3-0.5 of rain. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Laurier | - | US Customs reported .75 inch hail and strong wind from a thunderstorms that passed over Lauier, Washington. |
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.
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 Laurier | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6501776 | The 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 1521941. 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.








