Vantage, Washington
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kittitas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98950. It lies near Schnebly Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Vantage quadrangle. 54 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresVantage fell from 70 to 54 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 70 | |
| 2010 | 74 | +4 (+6%) |
| 2020 | 54 | -20 (-27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1912 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Vantage quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:62500
- 1965 USGS Vantage quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Priest Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Vantage between 2016 and 2020, burning about 11,057 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/undetermined | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WEST VANTAGE |
| 28 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | ROCK SPRING |
| 9 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,612 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | RYEGRASS COULEE |
| 8 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MEDIAN 136 |
| 4 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | DISADVANTAGE |
| 25 July 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Spokane District | VANTAGE |
| 21 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CELL TOWER |
| 11 July 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WANAPUM PARK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Vantage: 6 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park | Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Sinclair Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Grennell Deposit | Diatomite | Past Producer | ||
| Johnson Deposits | Diatomite | Prospect | ||
| Sec. 3/10 Pit | Diatomite | Producer | ||
| Sec. 33 Deposit | Diatomite | Unknown |
Storms near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vantage in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Vantage | $90,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Vantage | - | A video taken from George, WA showed a landspout travelling across far northeastern Kittitas county. The event time is estimated based on radar trends and time video was received. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doris | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Scammon Landing | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Beverly Junction | 8.1 miles | 16 | |
| Rye | 8.7 miles | 11 | |
| Cheviot | 10.3 miles | 12 | |
| Levering | 11.5 miles | 16 | |
| Boylston | 13.3 miles | 12 | |
| Renslow | 16.9 miles | 13 |
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 Vantage | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1514736 | The 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 1511390. 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.







