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Lowden, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Waitsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99360. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lowden quadrangle. It stands 492 feet above sea level.

Lowden within Walla Walla County

On record in Lowden

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lowden in 2011, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
12 September 2011Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestMEADOW CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walla Walla County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lowden: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Davin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Davin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jessee and SonsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Loos PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lowden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Touchet PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Welch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walla Walla County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowden in 2 storm reports in 2017: 2 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 2017FloodLowden-The Walla Walla river near Touchet, (flood stage 13.0 feet) crested at 14.2 feet at 2245 on March 16th. Fell below flood stage by 1100 on the 17th.
March 2017FloodLowden-The Walla Walla river near Touchet (flood stage 13.0 feet) crested at 13.6 feet at 0400 on March 11. Then fell below flood stage around 1300 on the same day.

Every storm recorded in Walla Walla 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
Touchet4.7 miles11
Whitman5.1 miles11
Gardena5.4 miles11
Sudbury6.3 miles11
Dixie Crossing6.5 miles11
Waiilatpo (historical)6.6 miles11
Thiel7.6 miles11
Pedigo7.9 miles11

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 LowdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5981684The 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 1512406. 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.