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Seven Mile, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Spokane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99026. The Survey maps it on the Airway Heights quadrangle.

Seven Mile within Spokane County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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

299 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 299 fires within 5 miles of Seven Mile between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,650 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 30 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Recreation and ceremony59
Debris and open burning35
Arson/incendiarism30
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Natural20
Fireworks14
Power generation/transmission/distribution13
Smoking12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Other causes9
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
9 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEQUESTRIAN
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters600
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined260 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEUCLID TRACKS
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPHEASANT WAY
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersAUBREY L. WHITE
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOLD LYONS
5 September 2017Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLITTLE SPOKANE
5 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLITTLE VISTA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Seven Mile: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Silica. 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
DartfordManganeseOccurrence1943
Fivemile PrairieClayOccurrence
Little Spokane River QuarryGranitePast Producer
McKinleySilicaProspect
Burlington Northern QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Highland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Highland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cunningham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seven Mile in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2017: 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
April 2017FloodSeven Mile$5,000The USGS Spokane River Gage at Spokane recorded the Spokane River continuing to achieve Minor Flood level through the first few days of April. The river receded to below the Flood Stage of 27.0 feet at 5:15 PM PST on April 3rd.
May 2016Flash FloodSeven Mile-An NWS Employee reported water and debris flowing across highway 291 between West Francis Avenue and Weest Rifle Club Road up in the northwest portion of Spokane, WA.

Every storm recorded in Spokane 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
Nine Mile Falls3.0 miles9
Highland3.5 miles12
Town and Country4.9 miles18
Fairwood5.3 miles14
Lyons5.5 miles12
Country Homes5.7 miles18
Dartford5.8 miles14
West Spokane6.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511304. 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.