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Northport, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Kettle Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99157. It lies near Smelter Rock. The Survey maps it on the Northport quadrangle. 297 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,365 feet above sea level.

Northport within Stevens County

On record in Northport

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Northport grew from 295 to 297 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
2010295
2020297+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Northport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,106 acres in total. 29 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
Natural29
Debris and open burning13
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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 2012Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestCHILLY FLAGSTAFF
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersUPPER SHEEP FALLS
8 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters25 SHOCK SPOTS
7 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWILCOX
4 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTROMBETTA
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFRANKLINSTEIN
28 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined249 acresColville National ForestHUBBARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 87 workings within 5 miles of Northport: 28 prospects, 26 occurrences, 18 past producers, 8 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Zinc, Limestone, 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
(Facility) Northport SmelterLead, CopperPlant
A. C. NeimanTungsten, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Black CanyonStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Botte-Chino QuarryStone, DimensionUnknown
CoyoteLead, Silver, Zinc, GoldOccurrence
CoyoteLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldProspect
Coyote ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Deep Creek MineLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperPast Producer1914, 1944
Flagstaff MountainBarium-BaritePlant1924, 1982
Flagstaff Mtn Moly ProspectMolybdenumProspect

Every working recorded in Stevens County

Storms near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northport in 5 storm reports in 2015: 4 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
May 2015HailNorthport-A COOP observer reported 1.75 inch hail 2 miles south of Northport, WA.
May 2015HailNorthport-A trained spotter reported one inch size hail 9 miles west southwest of Northport, WA.
May 2015HailNorthport-A trained spotter reported one inch hail 8 miles southeast of Northport, Washington.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNorthport-An emergency manager reported a treee fell over onto a house. Time was based off radar.
May 2015HailNorthport-An emergency manager relayed multiple reports 2 to 5 miles south and southwest of Northport, Washington along highway 25 of one inch size hail. Some areas accumulating this hail to a 1 to 1.5 inch depth.

Every storm recorded in Stevens 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
Velvet5.4 miles13
Little Dalles (historical)6.3 miles12
Frontier6.3 miles13
Marble7.9 miles11
Spirit9.2 miles15
Onion Creek9.3 miles12
Leadpoint10.3 miles13
Goldfield Mill11.5 miles15

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 NorthportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1504833The 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 1523920. 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.