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.
Population over time
2 figuresNorth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 688 | |
| 2020 | 651 | -37 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Omak Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Okanogan quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Okanogan quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS The Pothole quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Omak quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
201 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 48 |
| Debris and open burning | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Fireworks | 20 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Colville Agency | MOOMAW |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colville Agency | SLEEPY HOLLOW |
| 7 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Colville Agency | W. MOOMAWS |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colville Agency | OMAK HUDS |
| 4 September 2014 | Natural | 44 acres | Colville Agency | WILD HORSE |
| 4 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Colville Agency | WANNACUT CREEK II |
| 4 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Colville Agency | ANNOCOTT CREEK |
| 30 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colville Agency | MF HUD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canamera Milling and Smelting | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| N W L Brown | Magnesite | Past Producer | ||
| Omak | Silica | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Pogue Flat | Manganese | Past Producer | 1916 | |
| Riverside | Fluorine-Fluorite | Unknown | ||
| Deposit 2 | Dolomite | Occurrence | Dolomite | |
| N.W.L. Brown | Dolomite | Occurrence | Dolomite | |
| Riverside | Platinum | Occurrence | Stream Placer | |
| Riverside Placer | Platinum | Unknown | ||
| D and R Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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.
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 Omak | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1505284 | The 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.




