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Waterville, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Waterville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98858. It lies near Standpipe Hill. The Survey maps it on the Waterville quadrangle. 1,134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,625 feet above sea level.

Waterville within Douglas County

On record in Waterville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 7 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Waterville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 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 burning2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1

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
8 August 1992Arson/incendiarism20 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas County Fire DistrictsMP 151
14 July 2014Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCOUGAR FLATS
14 July 2009Fireworks15 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersQ ROAD
9 October 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEER CREEK
5 October 2019Debris and open burning8.7 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBLACK PINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Waterville: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Case QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dept of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hollingshead QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nelson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Pit Qs-Do-140Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waterville in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 debris flow, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2010Flash FloodWaterville$40,000no account filed
August 2013Debris FlowWaterville$5,000Highway 2 at Pine Canyon was closed due to mud and debris covering the roadway for a period of time. The road was covered in six to eight inches of debris. The water dug three to four foot trenches within the drainage. The Douglas RAWS reported six tenths of rainfall in an one hour period.
August 2019Flash FloodWaterville$2,000Water was reported over State Route 2 and flooding into an adjacent house east of Waterville due to thunderstorm heavy rain.
July 2023HailWaterville-Several reports of crop damage from hail and flooding between Waterville and Coulee City. Hail ranged from penny to quarter size in this corridor.
February 2021Debris FlowWaterville-The Washington Department of Highways reported a large rock slide on US-2 in Pine Canyon. The debris covered approximately 300 yards, which included many large rocks. The highway was closed from MP140 near Orondo to MP148 near Waterville. There was no known time of reopening the road at time of report.
August 2021Debris FlowWaterville-There was a rock slide, partially blocking a road near a golf course in Orondo, due to brief, heavy rain.
May 2020Debris FlowWaterville-A rock slide was reported by Washington State Patrol on Highway US-2 in Pine Canyon between Orondo and Waterville.
June 2015Flash FloodWaterville-Law enforcement reported debris and rocks over highway 2 in Pine Canyon near milepost 145 and 146.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWaterville-Pea-sized hail piled up to a depth of one inch on US Hwy 2 just east of Waterville.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindWaterville-spotter reported 58 mph gust

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Douglas3.9 miles12
Okanogan City (historical)4.0 miles7
Alstown7.2 miles6
McLeans Orchard (historical)8.0 miles14
Orondo8.3 miles13
Supplee10.0 miles7
Lamoine10.8 miles7
Farmer13.9 miles6

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 WatervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q168848The 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 1527848. 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.