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Mead, Washington

15 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 99021. The Survey maps it on the Mead quadrangle. 7,576 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,903 feet above sea level.

Mead within Spokane County

On record in Mead

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mead grew from 7,275 to 7,576 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
20107,275
20207,576+301 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

What the histories say of this town

1,327 words

1 chapter about Mead from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
An Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of WashingtonAn Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of Washington (1900)1,327 words

Fires near this place

447 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 447 fires within 5 miles of Mead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 652 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 20 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
Recreation and ceremony127
Missing data/not specified/undetermined83
Misuse of fire by a minor76
Debris and open burning46
Fireworks21
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural16
Smoking16
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Other causes8
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPEONE
8 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOT PURSUIT
8 September 2004Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNORA'S LAST
7 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMAG CAMP
6 September 1999Debris and open burning14 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Mead: 28 past producers, 3 producers, 3 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Manganese. 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
Bigelow GulchFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
DartfordManganeseOccurrence1943
Evergreen QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
MeadSilicaPast Producer
MeadPumicePast Producer
Mead Reduction PlantAluminum, Contained or MetalProducer1942
Building Supplies, Inc.ClayPast Producer
Spokane Area Clay DepositsClayOccurrence
Center and Perry St. PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mead in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
August 2005Thunderstorm WindMead2 hurt, $100,000no account filed
June 2022FloodMead$5,000Flooding of private roads and on Peone Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMead$5,000Broadcast media reported trees down on powerlines 3 miles northwest of Mead, WA.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMead$3,500Broadcast media reported a tree blown down on a home 2 miles north of Mead, WA.
August 2005HailMead$1,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMead$200A trained spotter reported a tree branch down near near Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA.
April 1999Tornado (F0)Mead-A weak, cold core tornado touched down briefly in a farm field on the outskirts of Mead.
June 2008HailMead-no account filed
May 1996Heavy RainMead-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
Country Homes2.9 miles18
Orchard Prairie3.3 miles19
Fairwood3.3 miles14
Dartford3.5 miles14
Colbert4.1 miles15
Town and Country4.5 miles18
Hillyard4.6 miles19
Buckeye5.3 miles15

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 MeadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6008135The 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 1512447. 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.