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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.

Laurier within Ferry County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Laurier 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.

YearPeople Change
20101
20204+3 (+300%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

37 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural27
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

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 2005Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersIMPERIAL WAY
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestRICHARD'S BIG TREE
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestWEDGE
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestLAURIER
2 September 1997Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestGROUSE MOUNTAIN
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersELK
15 September 2000Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestMARSHMELLOW FIRE
15 September 2000Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestOWL MTN.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ferry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 59 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bald EagleGold, Silver, CopperProspect
Carl SanstromGold, Antimony, Copper, SilverOccurrence
ComstockCopper, Silver, GoldProspectVein
Iron MaskZinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, CopperOccurrenceVein
Iron MaskZinc, Silver, Copper, Gold, LeadProspect
LaurierAsbestosOccurrenceChrysotile
Little GiantLead, Copper, Gold, SilverProspectBornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite
Little GiantLead, Silver, Gold, CopperPast Producer
McKinleySilver, Lead, Gold, CopperProspectVein
Montana and WashingtonCopper, Gold, SilverProspectVein

Every working recorded in Ferry County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2017FloodLaurier$780,000Numerous 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 2022Heavy RainLaurier-Owl Mountain Raws reported 0.59 of rain. Other raws in the area recorded 0.3-0.5 of rain.
May 2015HailLaurier-US Customs reported .75 inch hail and strong wind from a thunderstorms that passed over Lauier, Washington.

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
Goldstake5.4 miles14
Orient9.2 miles14
Dulwich10.5 miles14
Danville15.1 miles15
Barstow15.9 miles14
Boyds20.3 miles13
Curlew21.4 miles15
Malo24.4 miles15

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 LaurierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6501776The 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.