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Orient, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the East Ferry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99160. It stands on East Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orient quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,453 feet above sea level.

Orient within Ferry County

Population over time

2 figures

Orient fell from 115 to 75 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
2010115
202075-40 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Orient between 1992 and 2020, burning about 575 acres in total. 61 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
Natural61
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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 ForestWHO'S ON FIRST
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersIMPERIAL WAY
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBOULDER
2 September 1997Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestJONES' ONLY
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLAKIN FLAT
15 September 2000Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestTHOUGHT FIRE
15 September 2000Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestMARSHMELLOW FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ferry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 107 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 107 workings within 5 miles of Orient: 50 prospects, 47 occurrences, 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Silver. 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
BeecherGold, Copper, Silver, LeadProspect
CofferCopper, Gold, LeadProspectChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite
CofferCopper, Lead, GoldProspect
DefenderZinc, Copper, Gold, SilverProspectVein
DefenderZinc, Silver, Gold, CopperProspect
DreisselSilicaPast Producer
Easter SundayGold, Antimony, Copper, SilverProducerBoulangerite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Galena HillLead, Silver, Zinc, CopperProspect
GlobeGold, Silver, Zinc, CopperProspectVein
Globe MineCopper, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Ferry County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orient in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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 2018FloodOrient$100,000Flood water flow undermined the western abutment of the Rockcut Road Bridge across the Kettle River near Orient. This erosion is considered critical by an inspecting engineering firm. The bridge remains open but with weight and speed restrictions.
August 1998Heavy RainOrient-One inch of rain in 15 minutes

Every storm recorded in Ferry 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
Dulwich1.3 miles14
Goldstake3.8 miles14
Barstow6.9 miles14
Laurier9.2 miles14
Boyds11.1 miles13
Harter16.7 miles12
Danville18.4 miles15
Beulah (historical)19.2 miles14

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 OrientAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1301624The 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 1524070. 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.