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Spangle, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rockford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99031. The Survey maps it on the Spangle West quadrangle. 280 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,444 feet above sea level.

Spangle within Spokane County

Population over time

2 figures

Spangle grew from 278 to 280 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
2010278
2020280+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

1,133 words

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

ChapterFrom Length
An Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of WashingtonAn Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of Washington (1900)1,133 words

Fires near this place

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Spangle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,853 acres in total. 9 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
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
5 September 1993Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 1996Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersASPEN FALL
2 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined286 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHEATON ROAD
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJENNINGS ROAD
11 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpokane County Fire DistrictsSPANGLE CHAFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Spangle: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Ajax PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Foley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spangle in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 1 flash flood, 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 WindSpangle$2,000Two large trees snapped off middle of the way up the trunk. One tree fell onto a corner of a structure with minor damage reported. Damage costs were estimated.
June 2006Flash FloodSpangle-no account filed

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
Freedom3.5 miles11
Duncan5.6 miles17
Dynamite6.0 miles11
East Cheney6.9 miles9
Plaza7.4 miles11
Mount Hope8.8 miles12
West Fairfield9.3 miles12
Waverly10.0 miles12

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 SpangleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1510997The 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 1512681. 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.