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Nine Mile Falls, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Airway Heights census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99026. It stands on Deep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nine Mile Falls quadrangle. It stands 1,598 feet above sea level.

Nine Mile Falls within Spokane County

On record in Nine Mile Falls

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

297 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Nine Mile Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,370 acres in total. 26 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
Debris and open burning59
Recreation and ceremony55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Natural26
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Arson/incendiarism20
Fireworks20
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Other causes11
Smoking6

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH SWENSON
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPHEASANT WAY
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLUPIN LANE
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPINE BLUFF
4 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCRAIG
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPINE BLUFF
30 September 1994Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersARDEA LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Nine Mile Falls: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Stone, Dimension. 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
Little Spokane River QuarryGranitePast Producer
Stevens County Rd DeptStone, DimensionProducer
Nine Mile PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Burlington Northern QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Highland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nine Mile Falls in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2017: 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 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
March 2017FloodNine Mile Falls$100,000The Little Spokane River Gage at Dartford recorded a rise above the Flood Stage of 6.5 feet at 2:45 PM PST March 15th. The river fluctuated slightly above and below Flood Stage before rising again and cresting 6.8 feet at 11:15 AM on March 19th. The river then slowly receded, dropping below Flood Stage at 2:15 AM March 20th.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindNine Mile Falls-A two foot diameter Ponderosa Pine tree was uprooted at Sontag Park northwest of Spokane. Several other trees were blown down or snapped in the vicinity.
May 2016Flash FloodNine Mile Falls-A member of the public reported water over roadways and entering basements of some homes in and near Nine Mile Falls, WA.

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
Seven Mile3.0 miles12
Highland5.7 miles12
Lyons6.8 miles12
Fairwood6.8 miles14
Dartford6.9 miles14
Hazard7.2 miles8
Town and Country7.4 miles18
Hamann Corner7.4 miles14

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 Nine Mile FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3341970The 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 1511827. 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.