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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.

Penrith within Pend Oreille County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

187 since 1992

Regional 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 burning59
Recreation and ceremony27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Natural25
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking6
Other causes6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks3

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 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDIAMOND RHYME
9 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPRING VALLEY
6 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville National ForestPIONEER PARK CAMPGROUND
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pend Oreille County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
General McarthurLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperProspect
Grandview GroupLead, Copper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Lena Belle ProspectAntimonyOccurrenceStibnite
RiesLead, Silver, Gold, CopperOccurrence
RiesGemstoneOccurrence
Ries PropertyLead, Silver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite
BuckSilverProspect
Glass Mountain MineGold, SilverProspect
LloydLead, Zinc, Silver, CopperProspect
Mount PisgahLead, Zinc, Silver, CopperUnknown

Every working recorded in Pend Oreille County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008HailPenrith$1,000Penny sized hail cracked a windshield of a vehicle driving on U.S. Highway two.

Every storm 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
Newport3.5 miles13
Scotia4.3 miles13
Tweedie5.4 miles12
Wolfred5.5 miles11
Grahams5.7 miles13
Diamond Lake5.7 miles13
Furport7.4 miles11
Dalkena9.7 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 PenrithAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q26619913The 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.