BlockOakesdale, Washington
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Garfield-Oakesdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99158. It stands on McCoy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oakesdale quadrangle. 395 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,464 feet above sea level.
On record in Oakesdale
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
J. C. Barron Flour Milllisted 1978
Edwin H. Hanford Houselisted 1986
Oakesdale City Halllisted 1993
Population over time
2 figuresOakesdale fell from 422 to 395 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 | 422 | |
| 2020 | 395 | -27 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1903 USGS Oakesdale quadrangle1:125000
- 1905 USGS Oakesdale quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Oakesdale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Rosalia quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Oakesdale: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dept of Highways | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Johnson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fish Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Murphy Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Oakesdale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakesdale in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 flood, 3 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakesdale | $175,000 | Thunderstorm winds moved North from Oakesdale WA to Rockford WA. A weather station clocked gusts to 60 mph. It damaged or knocked down power lines and over 100 trees. It caused power outages around 3200 customers. |
| February 2000 | Flood | Oakesdale | $50,000 | no account filed |
| January 2007 | Flood | Oakesdale | $20,000 | no account filed |
| February 2025 | Flood | Oakesdale | $10,000 | Overflowing creek in town led to flooding of several homes with water near 6 inches deep. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Oakesdale | - | A spotter reported 1 inch size hail from a thunderstorm moving through the area. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Oakesdale | - | Observers reported 1 inch hail near Oakesdale and Tekoa, WA. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakesdale | - | Broadcast media posted a photograph of a downed tree via twitter that occurred in Oakesdale, WA. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Oakesdale | - | Location: on WA Hwy 27 |
| January 2006 | Flood | Oakesdale | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Flood | Oakesdale | - | no account filed |
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 Oakesdale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1507117 | 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 1507134. 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.
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.