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Loon Lake, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Loon Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99148. The Survey maps it on the Springdale quadrangle. 898 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,418 feet above sea level.

Loon Lake within Stevens County

On record in Loon Lake

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

Loon Lake grew from 783 to 898 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
2010783
2020898+115 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Loon Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 166 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 7 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 burning50
Natural28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony12
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Fireworks11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism7
Other causes4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEAST LAKE DEER
9 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLYONS MOSS
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGARDEN SPOT
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSUNSET BAY
7 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHUNGRY BUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Loon Lake: 7 unknowns, 4 prospects, 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron, 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
Cleveland MineLead, Antimony, Silver, ZincProducerBoulangerite, Galena, Sphalerite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite
Dept. of HwysStone, DimensionUnknown
GaberTungstenProspect
Honest JohnSilver, Gold, LeadProspect
SteinmetzSilicaUnknown
Trampus ProspectCopperOccurrence
U. S. Gypsum QuarryLimestone, DimensionUnknown
A. B. PitClayProducer
ClaytonClayPast Producer
Deer LakeIronProspect

Every working recorded in Stevens County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loon Lake in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
February 2014FloodLoon Lake-A trained spotter located three miles northeast of Loon Lake reported two to three inches of standing water on property and around the area. There were no known road closures from flooding.

Every storm recorded in Stevens 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
Springdale5.8 miles10
Clayton6.0 miles8
Cline6.3 miles10
Grays7.0 miles10
Kulzer7.8 miles11
Valley9.2 miles11
Waits11.9 miles9
Tumtum12.0 miles8

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 Loon LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5978784The 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 1522446. 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.