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Marshall, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Spokane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99224. It stands on Minnie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spokane SW quadrangle. It stands 2,139 feet above sea level.

Marshall within Spokane County

On record in Marshall

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

8 surveys from 17 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

298 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Marshall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,037 acres in total. 17 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined59
Debris and open burning49
Recreation and ceremony46
Misuse of fire by a minor31
Railroad operations and maintenance29
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural17
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Fireworks12
Other causes10
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking7

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 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGRACELAND
9 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEAST 902
6 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGROVE SPOT
6 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMT CARMEL
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPOTTED STRIKEOUT
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVIEWMONT STRIKE
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRAMONA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Marshall: 24 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gemstone, Slate, Dimension. 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
Conner PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Fish LakeGemstoneOccurrence
Fish LakeSlate, DimensionPast Producer
Fish LakeUraniumOccurrence
Fish Lake PegmatiteFeldsparOccurrence
Jordan RanchGalliumOccurrence
Geiger Field QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshall in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2008HailMarshall-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindMarshall-no account filed

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
Scribner0.6 miles11
Geiger Heights2.0 miles17
Hayford4.5 miles11
Four Lakes5.0 miles11
Dynamite5.4 miles11
Hazelwood5.9 miles12
Cheney6.7 miles9
West Spokane7.3 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 MarshallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6001820The 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 1509691. 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.