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Tonasket, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Tonasket census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98855. It stands on Bonaparte Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tonasket quadrangle. 1,103 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Tonasket within Okanogan County

On record in Tonasket

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Tonasket grew from 1,032 to 1,103 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
20101,032
20201,103+71 (+7%)

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.

Fires near this place

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Tonasket between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,552 acres in total. 29 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 burning32
Natural29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Firearms and explosives use1
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
7 September 2018Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOWELL CANYON
28 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 September 2010Naturalunder an acreSpokane DistrictJANIS VIEW
19 September 2010Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJANIS VIEW
14 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
9 August 2005Natural40 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCAYUSE RUNAROUND
6 August 2000Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okanogan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Tonasket: 5 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Antimony, Uranium, Zinc. 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
Lucky Knock MineAntimony, ZincPast Producer1904, 1907, 1967
Mcdaniel LeaseUraniumUnknown
AntimonyAntimonyOccurrenceStibnite
AntimonyAntimonyUnknown
Dept of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Dept of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Dept of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Tonasket Ready MixSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Verbeck BrosSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Verbeck BrosSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Okanogan County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tonasket in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2014: 1 hail, 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
July 1997HailTonasket$40,0001 1/4 inch hail and 70 mph wind from newspaper reports. Boats damaged and vehicles overturned at Lake Conconully
September 2013Flash FloodTonasket$23,000A flash flood washed out approximately 200 yards of a portion of the eastbound lane of Highway 20 at milepost 266. One lane was kept open for traffic. Damage cost were estimated.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindTonasket$2,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted three to five large trees on the north end of town. A lightning strike hit a power pole and knocked out power to portions of the town. Heavy rain also overwhelmed storm drains resulting in some standing water over roadways.

Every storm recorded in Okanogan 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
Janis4.2 miles11
Ellisforde6.2 miles13
Anglin8.6 miles12
Enterprise8.7 miles11
Barker9.1 miles11
Keystone10.2 miles11
Cordell11.2 miles13
Loomis13.0 miles11

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 TonasketAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1506311The 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 1527301. 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.