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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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
Downtown Pomeroy Historic Districtlisted 2003
Garfield County Courthouselisted 1974
Lewis and Clark Trail-Travois Roadlisted 1974
Population over time
2 figuresPomeroy 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,425 | |
| 2020 | 1,389 | -36 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1937 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1937 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:96000
- 1942 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 178 acres | Washington State Fire Marshal's Office | HILL FIRE COMPLEX |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pomeroy | Gold, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Platinum, Iron | Occurrence | Stream Placer | |
| Cyrus Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Trosper Transit Mix Concrete | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Keatts Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Knettle Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Pomeroy Quarryy | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomeroy | $15,000 | Semi truck blown off the road |
| July 2014 | Hail | Pomeroy | $5,000 | Hail 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 2021 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | Numerous reports of hail, from 1 to 1.25 inches, fell in Pomeroy as two strong thunderstorm cells moved across northern Garfield. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | A member of the public reported hail with a diameter of 1 inch from a thunderstorms near Pomeroy. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pomeroy | - | 70 mph gust |
| May 1997 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | 2 inch diameter hail |
| June 2006 | Hail | Pomeroy | - | no account filed |
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 Pomeroy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1148057 | 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 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.






