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Peola, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Snake River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99347. The Survey maps it on the Peola quadrangle. It stands 4,111 feet above sea level.

Peola within Garfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Peola between 1993 and 2019, burning about 133 acres in total. 23 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
Natural23
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
8 September 1998Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUmatilla National ForestTWIN CAMP
25 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 2011Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBMIDC 998 - ROCK HILL
8 August 1999Naturalunder an acreUmatilla National ForestBARBER CHAIR
31 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUmatilla National ForestPARTY
3 August 1994Natural25 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 August 1998Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Peola: 1 past producer. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Garfield County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peola in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2017: 4 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
November 2010Thunderstorm WindPeola$5,000no account filed
November 2010Thunderstorm WindPeola$5,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPeola-The Alder Ridge remote weather observing station reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 66 mph.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPeola-The Alder Ridge, Washington Remote Automatic Weather Station (RAWS) measured a 65 mph wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Garfield 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
Rose Springs4.4 miles16
Stentz Spring7.6 miles16
Unfried (historical)9.5 miles10
Mentor10.4 miles10
Pataha11.7 miles13
Pomeroy13.1 miles13
Kirby14.9 miles13
Zumwalt15.0 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 PeolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14713868The 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 1511222. 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.