Penrith, Washington
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Newport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99156. The Survey maps it on the Newport quadrangle. It stands 2,132 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1936 USGS Newport quadrangle1:125000
- 1936 USGS Newport quadrangle1:96000
- 1942 USGS Newport quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Newport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Chewelah quadrangle1:100000
- 1996 USGS Newport quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
187 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Penrith between 1992 and 2020, burning about 179 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 8 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 burning | 59 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Natural | 25 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Other causes | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | DIAMOND RHYME |
| 9 September 2006 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SPRING VALLEY |
| 6 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colville National Forest | PIONEER PARK CAMPGROUND |
| 5 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 29 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Penrith: 19 past producers, 5 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Silver, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Mcarthur | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Grandview Group | Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Lena Belle Prospect | Antimony | Occurrence | Stibnite | |
| Ries | Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Ries | Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Ries Property | Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite | |
| Buck | Silver | Prospect | ||
| Glass Mountain Mine | Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Lloyd | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Mount Pisgah | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Penrith in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Hail | Penrith | $1,000 | Penny sized hail cracked a windshield of a vehicle driving on U.S. Highway two. |
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 Penrith | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q26619913 | 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 1511542. 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.







