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Trinidad, Washington

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Quincy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98848. It lies near Lynch Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Babcock Ridge quadrangle. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Trinidad within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

17 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Trinidad between 2000 and 2020, burning about 11,232 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle 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
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined49 acresDouglas County Fire DistrictsDESERT ROSE
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpokane DistrictCELLAR
31 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined49 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDESERT ROSE
9 July 2014Railroad operations and maintenance591 acresSpokane DistrictTRINIDAD
8 July 2000Railroad operations and maintenance2,000 acresSpokane DistrictBAIRD
5 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution486 acresSpokane DistrictWILLOW SPRINGS
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,470 acresGrant County Fire DistrictsSPANISH CASTLE FIRE
3 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTARPISCAN ORCHARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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 Trinidad: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Bepple QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rank PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Trinidad PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trinidad in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindTrinidad$6,000Power lines down and over 900 people without power west of Quincy, centered in the crescent bar area.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Crescent Bar1.2 miles14
Crater3.0 miles14
Quincy7.9 miles13
Sunland Estates10.8 miles9
Adrian12.0 miles8
George12.9 miles14
Winchester14.9 miles11
Low Gap20.1 miles16

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 TrinidadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473588The 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 1511377. 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.