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.
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
Columbia River Bridge at Northportlisted 1995- Northport Schoollisted 1979
- Red Mountain Railroad Bridgelisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresNorthport 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 295 | |
| 2020 | 297 | +2 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1929 USGS Colville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1933 USGS Colville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Northport quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Colville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Northport quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
80 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Colville National Forest | CHILLY FLAGSTAFF |
| 8 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | UPPER SHEEP FALLS |
| 8 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | 25 SHOCK SPOTS |
| 7 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WILCOX |
| 4 September 2003 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 30 September 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | TROMBETTA |
| 29 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | FRANKLINSTEIN |
| 28 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 249 acres | Colville National Forest | HUBBARD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 87 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Northport Smelter | Lead, Copper | Plant | ||
| A. C. Neiman | Tungsten, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Black Canyon | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Botte-Chino Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Coyote | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Coyote | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Coyote Prospect | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Deep Creek Mine | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1914, 1944 | |
| Flagstaff Mountain | Barium-Barite | Plant | 1924, 1982 | |
| Flagstaff Mtn Moly Prospect | Molybdenum | Prospect |
Storms near this place
5 since 2015Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Hail | Northport | - | A COOP observer reported 1.75 inch hail 2 miles south of Northport, WA. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Northport | - | A trained spotter reported one inch size hail 9 miles west southwest of Northport, WA. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Northport | - | A trained spotter reported one inch hail 8 miles southeast of Northport, Washington. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northport | - | An emergency manager reported a treee fell over onto a house. Time was based off radar. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Northport | - | 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Velvet | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Little Dalles (historical) | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Frontier | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Marble | 7.9 miles | 11 | |
| Spirit | 9.2 miles | 15 | |
| Onion Creek | 9.3 miles | 12 | |
| Leadpoint | 10.3 miles | 13 | |
| Goldfield Mill | 11.5 miles | 15 |
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 Northport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1504833 | 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 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.






