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Pend Oreille Village, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Ione-Metaline Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99153. It stands on Sullivan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Metaline Falls quadrangle.

Pend Oreille Village within Pend Oreille County

On record in Pend Oreille Village

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Pend Oreille Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 3 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
Natural17
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
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
22 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLOST CREEK
13 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColville National ForestWEREWOLF (RED FLAG)
6 August 2010Naturalunder an acreColville National Forest21 MILE
4 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColville National ForestSPOT 35
31 August 2013Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestS. FORK FLUME CREEK
3 August 1994Other causes1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColville National ForestRIVERSIDE MINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pend Oreille County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 113 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 113 workings within 5 miles of Pend Oreille Village: 43 past producers, 31 prospects, 30 occurrences, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Copper, 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
Bella May MineZinc, Cadmium, Lead, Silver, UraniumProspect
Bella May, Diamond R., Polly MollyMolybdenum, Lead, ZincOccurrenceReplacement
Blue BucketSilver, Zinc, LeadOccurrence
Blue JimSilver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Zinc, AntimonyOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite, Siderite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Flusey-HoopalaLead, Zinc, Silver, CopperProspect
Frisco - StandardSilver, Copper, Antimony, Lead, ZincProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Stannite, Tetrahedrite
Grandview MineLead, Zinc, Copper, Cadmium, Silver, UraniumPast Producer1924
Grandview MineZinc, Lead, Silver, CadmiumPast Producer
Hoosier ClaimCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceContact Metasomatic
JosephineZinc, Silver, Lead, Uranium, CadmiumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pend Oreille 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
Metaline Falls0.5 miles13
Metaline1.8 miles13
Ione9.2 miles14
Tiger12.4 miles14
Diamond City17.8 miles12
Lost Creek17.9 miles12
Blueslide21.6 miles12
Ruby24.1 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122593538The 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 1524319. 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.