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Malo, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Curlew census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99150. It stands on Saint Peter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Malo quadrangle. 32 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,182 feet above sea level.

Malo within Ferry County

Population over time

2 figures

Malo grew from 28 to 32 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
201028
202032+4 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Malo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 887 acres in total. 31 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
Natural31
Debris and open burning21
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLAMBERT FLAT
29 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLAMBERT LANE
27 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLITTLE ANGEL
27 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColville National ForestINCIDENT 190
2 September 2002Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestINCIDENT 171
10 September 1998Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 August 2012Natural2.6 acresColville National ForestPETE LOOP
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville National ForestMOUNTAIN HOMES HOTSPOT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ferry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Malo: 7 occurrences, 4 prospects, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Boston & New YorkCopper, Lead, SilverOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena
Boston & New YorkSilver, Copper, LeadOccurrence
Boston and New YorkSilver, Copper, LeadPast Producer
HawkeyeGold, Silver, Iron, CopperOccurrence
LamefootIron, Silver, GoldProspectReplacement
Pin MoneyGold, Silver, Nickel, Cobalt, AntimonyOccurrencePyrite, Pyrrhotite, Tetrahedrite
Us Public DomainSilver, Gold, ZincUnknown
WinnipegGold, Copper, IronProspectReplacement
Lambert CreekIronOccurrence
Stotts Wash PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ferry County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malo in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMalo$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a 50 year old pine tree. Two to four foot waves were observed on Lake Curlew.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindMalo$1,000Three inch diameter tree limbs and heavy metal lawn furniture were blown over by strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2023HailMalo-Observer also reported 0.54 inches of precipitation in 45 minutes with the hail.
July 2012HailMalo-no account filed

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
Karamin3.0 miles15
Curlew5.8 miles15
Pollard6.0 miles14
Torboy8.9 miles14
Republic12.7 miles14
Toroda12.8 miles12
Danville14.2 miles15
Orient21.9 miles14

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 MaloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6744446The 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 1522664. 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.