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Rosalia, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rosalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99170. The Survey maps it on the Rosalia quadrangle. 598 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,238 feet above sea level.

Rosalia within Whitman County

On record in Rosalia

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

Rosalia grew from 550 to 598 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
2010550
2020598+48 (+9%)

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.

Fires near this place

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Rosalia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,355 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15,269 acresNortheast Region-Department of Natural ResourcesBABB
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROSALIA
19 August 1999Natural3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBASALT
30 July 1994Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 July 1992Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
11 July 1996Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 June 2013Naturalunder an acreTurnbull National Wildlife RefugePHILLOE STRIKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitman County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Rosalia: 13 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Dorsey QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Durham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North Pine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peterschick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peterschick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rosalia Ready MixSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spring Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Whitman County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosalia in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 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
March 2014Thunderstorm WindRosalia$4,500Strong winds behind the squall line blew a road sign into a vehicle traveling on State Route 195.
February 2025FloodRosalia-Washed out dirt road with water flowing through.
December 2022FloodRosalia-Water was over the roadway on SR 271 between MP 7 and 8.
June 2006Funnel CloudRosalia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Whitman 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
Donahue1.9 miles10
Balder4.1 miles10
McCoy4.7 miles10
Pandora5.1 miles10
Malden5.5 miles10
Flaig7.6 miles10
Thornton8.0 miles10
Fairbanks8.2 miles10

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 RosaliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1507139The 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 1507912. 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.