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Starbuck, Washington

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Starbuck census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99359. It stands on Kellogg Creek. The Survey maps it on the Starbuck West quadrangle. 119 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Starbuck within Columbia County

On record in Starbuck

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Starbuck fell from 129 to 119 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
2010129
2020119-10 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Starbuck in 2016, burning about 11,548 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/undetermined2

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 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined9,168 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeFLETCHER ROAD
17 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,380 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeSTARBUCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Starbuck: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, 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
StarbuckPumiceOccurrence
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Grange City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Starbuck PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Starbuck PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Starbuck in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 1 hail, 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
May 2006Thunderstorm WindStarbuck-Numerous large tree limbs down. Shingles off roofs.
June 2001HailStarbuck-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
Powers1.8 miles8
Grange City (historical)3.4 miles8
Relief5.1 miles10
Delaney8.3 miles10
Tucannon9.2 miles13
Alto9.2 miles10
Jackson11.5 miles10
Wild Goose (historical)12.1 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 StarbuckAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1507573The 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 1508695. 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.