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Othello, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Othello census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99344. The Survey maps it on the Othello quadrangle. 8,549 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.

Othello within Adams County

On record in Othello

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

3 figures

Othello grew from 5,847 to 8,549 between 2000 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
20005,847
20107,364+1,517 (+26%)
20208,549+1,185 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Othello between 1997 and 2014, burning about 1,397 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresColumbia National Wildlife RefugePATTY
12 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresColumbia National Wildlife RefugeCOYOTE
6 July 2000Fireworks991 acresColumbia National Wildlife RefugeLYLE LK
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMid Columbia National Wildlife Refuge ComplexLYLE LAKE
29 June 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColumbia National Wildlife RefugeSODA CAMP
28 June 1997Arson/incendiarism45 acresColumbia National Wildlife RefugeHEART
25 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresColumbia National Wildlife RefugeBOBCAT
25 June 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresColumbia National Wildlife RefugeRIDGEVIEW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Othello: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hartman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Othello PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Yorgerson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Othello in 2 storm reports in 1998: 1 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
July 1998Thunderstorm WindOthello$10,000trees down and power lines down along with widespread damage to nearby wheat fields.
April 1998HailOthello-1 inch hail

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Novara3.6 miles11
Bruce6.6 miles11
Koren8.7 miles11
Shano10.8 miles9
Hatton18.8 miles8
Roxboro19.1 miles9
Cunningham19.6 miles8
Warden Hutterian Brethren20.0 miles10

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 OthelloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1510263The 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 1507216. 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.