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Saint John, Washington

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rock Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99171. The Survey maps it on the Saint John quadrangle. 599 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,962 feet above sea level.

Saint John within Whitman County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint John grew from 537 to 599 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
2010537
2020599+62 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Saint John in 1995, burning about 2 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
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
26 May 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTurnbull National Wildlife RefugeDUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitman County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saint John: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Juno1.7 miles5
Huntley2.9 miles5
Sunset5.5 miles10
Lancaster6.0 miles6
Lavista7.5 miles5
Kenova8.1 miles5
Pine City8.2 miles5
Ewan8.3 miles6

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 Saint JohnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2602013The 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 1508016. 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.