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.
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
Loon Lake Schoollisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresLoon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 783 | |
| 2020 | 898 | +115 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1927 USGS Chewelah quadrangle1:125000
- 1930 USGS Chewelah quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Chewelah quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
167 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 50 |
| Natural | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Fireworks | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | EAST LAKE DEER |
| 9 September 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LYONS MOSS |
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | GARDEN SPOT |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SUNSET BAY |
| 7 September 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 29 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HUNGRY BUMP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Mine | Lead, Antimony, Silver, Zinc | Producer | Boulangerite, Galena, Sphalerite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite | |
| Dept. of Hwys | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Gaber | Tungsten | Prospect | ||
| Honest John | Silver, Gold, Lead | Prospect | ||
| Steinmetz | Silica | Unknown | ||
| Trampus Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| U. S. Gypsum Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| A. B. Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Clayton | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Deer Lake | Iron | Prospect |
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2014 | Flood | Loon 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. |
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 Loon Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5978784 | 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 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.





