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Mattawa, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mattawa-Royal City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99349. The Survey maps it on the Priest Rapids quadrangle. 3,335 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Mattawa within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Mattawa fell from 4,437 to 3,335 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
20104,437
20203,335-1,102 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Mattawa between 1999 and 2019, burning about 37,796 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
16 August 2004Power generation/transmission/distribution20 acresSpokane DistrictSENTINEL
6 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined68 acresSpokane DistrictHWY 243
24 July 2019Natural124 acresSpokane DistrictSADDLE MOUNTAIN
20 July 2018Arson/incendiarism73 acresSpokane DistrictO ROAD
20 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined24,650 acresSoutheast Region-Department of Natural Resources400
19 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined909 acresSpokane DistrictBUCKSHOT
15 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresColumbia National Wildlife RefugeRDI-14SW
14 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use7,728 acresSpokane DistrictPOWERLINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mattawa: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. 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
BeverlyPumicePast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Desert Aire4.1 miles12
Schwana6.1 miles16
Beverly7.0 miles16
Wanapum Village8.8 miles16
Jericho8.9 miles16
Smyrna14.5 miles12
Low Gap18.1 miles16
Royal City18.3 miles12

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 MattawaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1505535The 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 1506518. 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.