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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.

Medical Lake within Spokane County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Medical 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.

YearPeople Change
20105,060
20204,874-186 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

2,221 words

1 chapter about Medical Lake 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)2,221 words

Fires near this place

152 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined46
Recreation and ceremony25
Debris and open burning15
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Fireworks5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Other causes1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBARTHOLOMEW VALVE
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined95 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLAKELAND VILLAGE
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined210 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFANCHER STUBBLE
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFANCHER
26 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWELCOME WIND
25 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWATERFRONT
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHWY 902X2
24 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor2.5 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 21 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Silver LakeTravertineProspect
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wallace QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Giles & Peat QuarryGranitePast Producer
Keene QuarryGranitePast Producer
Medical Lake, County QuarryGranitePast Producer
Washington Monument & Cut Stone Co.GranitePast Producer
Four Lakes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Galena PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015Funnel CloudMedical 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.

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
Lakeland Village1.9 miles13
Silver Lake2.2 miles13
Espanola3.8 miles13
Fairchild4.3 miles12
Four Lakes4.7 miles11
Deep Creek5.1 miles12
Hayford6.7 miles11
Airway Heights6.8 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 Medical LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1506243The 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.