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Omak, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Omak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98841. It lies near Ross Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Omak quadrangle. 4,860 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Omak within Okanogan County

On record in Omak

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Omak grew from 4,845 to 4,860 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
20104,845
20204,860+15 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

211 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Omak between 1992 and 2020, burning about 219,562 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use25
Natural24
Fireworks23
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking4
Other causes4
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 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColville AgencyW. MOOMAWS
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined189,923 acresColville AgencyCOLD SPRINGS
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville AgencyOMAK HUDS
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColville AgencyWANNACUT CREEK II
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColville AgencyANNOCOTT CREEK
4 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPRING COULEE CAR WRECK
30 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColville AgencyOMAK LAKE CAMERON LA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okanogan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Omak: 9 past producers, 7 occurrences, 7 unknowns, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. 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
Deposit 10DolomiteOccurrenceDolomite
Geo Thompson FarmGraphiteOccurrence
OkanoganLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceLimestone
Okanogan County Road DivStone, DimensionProducer
ShermanLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldUnknown
Sherman ClaimsLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperOccurrenceReplacement
Deposit 10MagnesiteOccurrence
Johnson CreekMagnesiteUnknown
PalmerCopperUnknown

Every working recorded in Okanogan County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Omak in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 2 flash flood, 2 wildfire, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
August 2002WildfireOmak$200,000no account filed
July 1998WildfireOmak$50,000Lightning sparked several small fires between Cameron Lake and Omak Lake in the Colville Indian Reservation. A few smaller fires were also reported near Salmon Creek Rd and south of Riverside. Over 200 acres were burned.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindOmak$10,000The roof at an Athletic Club in Omak was damaged from strong outflow winds from a thunderstorm. In addition, the winds toppled a large weeping willow tree onto a vending truck.
July 2012Flash FloodOmak$2,000City Hall had to be sandbagged due to water flowing into the building.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOmak$1,500Trees were blown down on West Ridge Drive.
May 2015Heavy RainOmak-A weather spotter reported heavy rain from a thunderstorm washed out a ditch and caused water to run over a driveway seven miles northwest of Omak, WA.
June 1997Flash FloodOmak-FLOODING IN OMAK AND MUDSLIDES ON SR97 IN OMAK
August 1997Tornado (F0)Omak-WCM confirms brief tornado touchdown...F0
June 2006LightningOmak-no account filed

Every storm 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
Epley (historical)1.9 miles12
Cherokee4.2 miles9
Okanogan4.5 miles12
North Omak5.0 miles9
Riverside6.4 miles11
Brown Lake7.8 miles11
Chillowist9.4 miles12
Loop Loop (historical)10.2 miles11

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 OmakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1509671The 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 1524048. 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.