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Town and Country, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Spokane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99208. It lies near Fivemile Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Spokane NW quadrangle. 5,068 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,060 feet above sea level.

Town and Country within Spokane County

Population over time

2 figures

Town and Country grew from 4,857 to 5,068 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
20104,857
20205,068+211 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

395 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 395 fires within 5 miles of Town and Country between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,491 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 37 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
Recreation and ceremony122
Missing data/not specified/undetermined93
Misuse of fire by a minor57
Arson/incendiarism37
Smoking18
Fireworks16
Debris and open burning16
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Other causes7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
8 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPEONE
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersAUBREY L. WHITE
7 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMAG CAMP
5 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersESMERALDA
5 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCOURTLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Town and Country: 26 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Clay. 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
McKinleySilicaProspect
Mead Reduction PlantAluminum, Contained or MetalProducer1942
Center and Perry St. PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Acme Concrete PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Acme PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Big Gulch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bpa MeadSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Country Homes1.7 miles18
Fairwood2.7 miles14
Hillyard3.5 miles19
Dartford4.0 miles14
Mead4.5 miles15
Spokane4.7 miles18
West Spokane4.7 miles18
Seven Mile4.9 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 Town and CountryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1504059The 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 1867638. 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.