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North Omak, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Colville Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98841. It lies near Pothole Canyon. The Survey maps it on The Pothole quadrangle. 651 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.

North Omak within Okanogan County

Population over time

2 figures

North Omak fell from 688 to 651 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
2010688
2020651-37 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

201 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of North Omak between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,548 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 7 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
Natural48
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use22
Fireworks20
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Other causes3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreColville AgencyMOOMAW
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville AgencySLEEPY HOLLOW
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColville AgencyW. MOOMAWS
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville AgencyOMAK HUDS
4 September 2014Natural44 acresColville AgencyWILD HORSE
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColville AgencyWANNACUT CREEK II
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColville AgencyANNOCOTT CREEK
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville AgencyMF HUD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okanogan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of North Omak: 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Dolomite, Platinum, Silica. 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
Canamera Milling and SmeltingGoldPast Producer
N W L BrownMagnesitePast Producer
OmakSilicaOccurrenceReplacement
Pogue FlatManganesePast Producer1916
RiversideFluorine-FluoriteUnknown
Deposit 2DolomiteOccurrenceDolomite
N.W.L. BrownDolomiteOccurrenceDolomite
RiversidePlatinumOccurrenceStream Placer
Riverside PlacerPlatinumUnknown
D and R PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Okanogan 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
Cherokee1.2 miles9
Omak5.0 miles12
Riverside5.1 miles11
Epley (historical)6.3 miles12
Synarep8.0 miles11
Keystone8.3 miles11
Barker9.3 miles11
Okanogan9.4 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 North OmakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1505284The 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 1867624. 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.