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Peone, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Colbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99021. The Survey maps it on the Foothills quadrangle. It stands 1,887 feet above sea level.

Peone within Spokane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Peone between 1992 and 2020, burning about 319 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 4 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Recreation and ceremony18
Natural15
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Other causes5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2008Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRIDGEWAY STRIKE
7 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning14 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTEMPLE AGAIN
28 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOWE LOWE
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLINDGREN
21 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Peone: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Silica, Mica, Clay. 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
Deadman CreekAluminumProspect
Fuher ProspectClayOccurrence
Gladding, Mcbean Silica QuarrySilica, MicaPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
FitzgeraldFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
NoydFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
SkattumFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peone in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 debris flow, 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
May 2008FloodPeone$1,000,000no account filed
June 2022FloodPeone$10,000Recent rains have caused part of the road to wash away and currently one lane is open.
January 2018Debris FlowPeone$1,000A mudslide on State Route 209 near Colbert closed down one lane of the road until the highway department cleared it.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindPeone-WSDOT report of trees down on State Route 206. Time estimated by radar archive.

Every storm recorded in Spokane 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
Green Bluff2.8 miles15
Colbert6.2 miles15
Orchard Prairie6.6 miles19
Mead7.1 miles15
Hutton Settlement7.2 miles19
Newman Lake7.3 miles19
Trentwood7.3 miles18
Irwin7.6 miles18

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 PeoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q26902723The 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 1511223. 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.