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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.

Vantage within Kittitas County

Population over time

3 figures

Vantage 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.

YearPeople Change
200070
201074+4 (+6%)
202054-20 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

15 since 2016

Regional 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/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
10 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWEST VANTAGE
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROCK SPRING
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,612 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRYEGRASS COULEE
8 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMEDIAN 136
4 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDISADVANTAGE
25 July 2020Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresSpokane DistrictVANTAGE
21 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCELL TOWER
11 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWANAPUM PARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ginkgo Petrified Forest State ParkGemstoneOccurrence
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sinclair PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grennell DepositDiatomitePast Producer
Johnson DepositsDiatomiteProspect
Sec. 3/10 PitDiatomiteProducer
Sec. 33 DepositDiatomiteUnknown

Every working recorded in Kittitas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2005Flash FloodVantage$90,000no account filed
May 2024Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in Kittitas 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
Doris5.5 miles11
Scammon Landing6.8 miles9
Beverly Junction8.1 miles16
Rye8.7 miles11
Cheviot10.3 miles12
Levering11.5 miles16
Boylston13.3 miles12
Renslow16.9 miles13

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 VantageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1514736The 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.