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Millwood, Washington

19 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 99212. The Survey maps it on the Spokane NE quadrangle. 1,881 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,972 feet above sea level.

Millwood within Spokane County

On record in Millwood

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

Millwood grew from 1,786 to 1,881 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
20101,786
20201,881+95 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

392 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 392 fires within 5 miles of Millwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,857 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 48 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 ceremony139
Missing data/not specified/undetermined85
Arson/incendiarism48
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural13
Fireworks11
Smoking11
Other causes6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4

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 September 2001Arson/incendiarism14 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOT PURSUIT
8 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMIRABEAU RIVER
5 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersESMERALDA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Millwood: 31 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Granite. 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
Empire Granite QuarryGranite, Silica, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
DishmanSilicaOccurrence
MeadSilicaPast Producer
Spokane Silica Sand DepositSilicaOccurrence
Center and Perry St. PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Havana and 10th QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millwood in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2002LightningMillwood$15,000Lightning struck the roof of an apartment building north of the intersection of Sprague and Argonne, igniting a fire that burned a 6-by-22 foot hole in the roof of the apartment. The residents of the apartment escaped without injury.
August 2016LightningMillwood$5,000A NWS Employee reported that a home in the Spokane Valley of Spokane, WA was damaged by a lightning strike.
June 2008HailMillwood-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindMillwood-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
Pasadena Park1.1 miles19
Orchard Avenue1.1 miles19
Hutton Settlement1.6 miles19
Dishman1.7 miles19
Irwin2.2 miles18
Orchard Park2.3 miles19
Spokane Valley2.4 miles18
East Spokane2.6 miles19

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 MillwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1505556The 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 1512466. 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.