Medical Lake, Washington
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Cheney-Medical Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99022. It lies near Olson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Medical Lake quadrangle. 4,874 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,425 feet above sea level.
On record in Medical Lake
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 2 records
Hallett Houselisted 1976
Roosevelt Halllisted 1997
Population over time
2 figuresMedical Lake fell from 5,060 to 4,874 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,060 | |
| 2020 | 4,874 | -186 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Medical Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Medical Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Medical Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Medical Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1973 USGS Medical Lake quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Medical Lake quadrangle1:24000
- 1987 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:100000
What the histories say of this town
2,221 words1 chapter about Medical Lake from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| An Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of Washington | An Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of Washington (1900) | 2,221 words |
Fires near this place
152 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Medical Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,492 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined | 46 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BARTHOLOMEW VALVE |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 95 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LAKELAND VILLAGE |
| 3 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 210 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | FANCHER STUBBLE |
| 29 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | FANCHER |
| 26 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WELCOME WIND |
| 25 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WATERFRONT |
| 25 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HWY 902X2 |
| 24 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Medical Lake: 20 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Travertine. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Lake | Travertine | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Wallace Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Giles & Peat Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Keene Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Medical Lake, County Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Washington Monument & Cut Stone Co. | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Four Lakes Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Galena Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medical Lake in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Medical Lake | - | A NWS Employee observed a funnel cloud form 4 miles south of Medical Lake, WA. The funnel cloud retracted back into the cloud shortly after and was never observed touching the ground. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeland Village | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Silver Lake | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Espanola | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Fairchild | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Four Lakes | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Deep Creek | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Hayford | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Airway Heights | 6.8 miles | 12 |
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 Medical Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1506243 | The 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 1512452. 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.








