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Valley, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Springdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99181. It stands on Bulldog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Valley quadrangle. 149 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,696 feet above sea level.

Valley within Stevens County

Population over time

2 figures

Valley grew from 146 to 149 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
2010146
2020149+3 (+2%)

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

146 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,018 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 1 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Natural21
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Fireworks10
Other causes8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJUMP OFF
9 September 2010Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJUMPING JOE FLASH
7 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use411 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBULL DOG
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWAITTS RESORT
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJUMPOFF WAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Valley: 11 occurrences, 8 past producers, 7 unknowns, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Limestone, Dimension, Barium-Barite, Stone, Dimension. 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
Cleveland MineLead, Antimony, Silver, ZincProducerBoulangerite, Galena, Sphalerite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite
Loon LakeCopper, Silver, Iron, Barium-Barite, PeatPast Producer
Loon Lake CopperCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Loon Lake Copper MineCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer1890, 1895
Nanome AggregatesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
B and BCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Dept. of HwysSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
DietrichSilicaOccurrence
Green Mountain Marble CoMagnesiteOccurrence
Jumpoff CreekClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Stevens County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valley in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 debris flow. 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
January 2020Debris FlowValley$100,000A hillside along route 231 near Valley began slowly sliding and compromising the road bed. Temporary traffic lights were installed to restrict traffic to one lane while highway crews stabilized the road bed.
May 1997HailValley-1 inch hail

Every storm recorded in Stevens 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
Kulzer1.7 miles11
Waits3.2 miles9
Grays5.0 miles10
Chewelah7.0 miles14
Cline7.9 miles10
Springdale8.2 miles10
Carrs Corner8.3 miles9
Loon Lake9.2 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 ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6159312The 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 1527659. 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.