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Mesa, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Connell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99343. The Survey maps it on the Mesa West quadrangle. 385 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Mesa within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Mesa fell from 489 to 385 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
2010489
2020385-104 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Mesa between 2019 and 2020, burning about 8,752 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresSpokane DistrictESQUATZEL
3 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSpokane DistrictMILE POST 50
7 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined8,743 acresSpokane DistrictMATSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Mesa: 11 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Kuney PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mesa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stock Gravel Crushing, Inc., KeithStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Goodfellow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mesa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mesa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mesa in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2013Thunderstorm WindMesa-Washington Ag Wx Net observation.
June 2001HailMesa-Dime-sized hail fell for around 15 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Edwards1.8 miles11
Cactus4.6 miles8
Basin City7.8 miles11
Eltopia8.1 miles10
Five Corners9.0 miles8
Schlomer9.5 miles8
Connell9.8 miles8
Curry10.8 miles8

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 MesaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1514224The 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 1512459. 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.