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Prescott, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Eureka Flat census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99348. It lies near Whetstone Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Prescott quadrangle. 372 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.

Prescott within Walla Walla County

Population over time

2 figures

Prescott grew from 318 to 372 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
2010318
2020372+54 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

What the histories say of this town

1,014 words

1 chapter about Prescott from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
An Illustrated History of Walla Walla County, State of WashingtonAn Illustrated History of Walla Walla County, State of Washington (1901)1,014 words

Fires near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Prescott between 1995 and 2005, burning about 110 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
13 July 1995Power generation/transmission/distribution100 acresSpokane DistrictSMITH CYN
26 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walla Walla County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Prescott: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice. 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 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Prescott-Pleasantville RoadPumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Walla Walla County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prescott in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 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
May 2020Thunderstorm WindPrescott-Roof Damage.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindPrescott-Shingles tearing off roof.

Every storm recorded in Walla Walla 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
Robinson1.1 miles10
Bolles5.1 miles10
Ennis5.2 miles10
Berryman6.7 miles11
Paddock8.4 miles11
Waitsburg8.8 miles10
Climax8.9 miles11
Harsha9.2 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 PrescottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1507951The 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 1507623. 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.