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Liberty Lake, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Liberty Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99019. It lies near Carlson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Liberty Lake quadrangle. 12,003 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,073 feet above sea level.

Liberty Lake within Spokane County

Population over time

2 figures

Liberty Lake grew from 7,591 to 12,003 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
20107,591
202012,003+4,412 (+58%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

163 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Liberty Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 306 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 13 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 burning34
Natural28
Recreation and ceremony26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Arson/incendiarism13
Fireworks10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes3
Smoking3
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
9 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWINDSONG
9 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVALLEY MAZE
8 September 2014Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSALTESE
8 September 1993Fireworks1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpokane County Fire DistrictsDALKE AVENUE
7 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsCARPENTER
7 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLINKE

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 Liberty Lake: 8 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Graphite, Clay. 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
Saltese CreekFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Sheep Mountain GraphiteGraphiteOccurrence
Shelley LakeClayPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Liberty Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sprague PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty Lake in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 flood. 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 2017FloodLiberty Lake$200,000The Spokane River at Spokane River Gage recorded a rise above the Flood Stage of 27.0 feet at 10:00 AM PST on March 18th. The river crested at 28.7 feet at 8:30 PM on the 23rd. The river slowly receded but remained above Flood Stage through the end of March and into April. Extensive flooding of fields and park land along the river occurred as well as basement flooding of some homes and businesses.

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
Arturdee (historical)1.7 miles19
Chatnwaqhi'pm Grove2.4 miles18
Ne'sqhwaqhwe (historical)2.5 miles19
Chnak'wa'qn Breaks3.5 miles18
Otis Orchards3.7 miles19
Greenacres4.0 miles18
Alpha (historical)4.4 miles18
Austin4.6 miles18

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 Liberty LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q916956The 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 1512389. 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.