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Pomeroy, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pomeroy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99347. It lies near Benjamin Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Pomeroy quadrangle. 1,389 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,857 feet above sea level.

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Pomeroy within Garfield County

On record in Pomeroy

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Pomeroy fell from 1,425 to 1,389 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,425
20201,389-36 (-3%)

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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Pomeroy in 2017, burning about 178 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
27 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined178 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeHILL FIRE COMPLEX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pomeroy: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Platinum, Iron. 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
PomeroyGold, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Platinum, IronOccurrenceStream Placer
Cyrus PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Trosper Transit Mix ConcreteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Keatts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Knettle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pomeroy QuarryyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Garfield County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pomeroy in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 hail, 2 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
January 2000Thunderstorm WindPomeroy$15,000Semi truck blown off the road
July 2014HailPomeroy$5,000Hail ranging from quarters to the size of golf balls fell across northern Garfield County impacting the communities of Pomeroy and Mayview. The hail dented three cars and broke sky lights in a metal building at Dye Seed Ranch. Hail also damaged some of the wheat crop.
June 2021HailPomeroy-Numerous reports of hail, from 1 to 1.25 inches, fell in Pomeroy as two strong thunderstorm cells moved across northern Garfield.
August 2019HailPomeroy-A member of the public reported hail with a diameter of 1 inch from a thunderstorms near Pomeroy.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindPomeroy-70 mph gust
May 1997HailPomeroy-2 inch diameter hail
June 2006HailPomeroy-no account filed

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
Pataha3.5 miles13
Zumwalt4.5 miles14
Mentor7.0 miles10
Gould City7.9 miles9
Houser9.4 miles10
Kirby11.5 miles13
Dodge12.1 miles10
Mayview13.0 miles13

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 PomeroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1148057The 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 1512575. 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.