Washington · Census place 5312140

Chewelah, Washington

Chewelah is a city in Stevens County, Washington with an estimated 2,687 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 151st largest of 206 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,687
#151 of 206 in Washington
Change since 2020
+8.5%
+210 people
Land area
3.0 sq mi
Density
911 / sq mi
State median 2,694
Orange pin: Chewelah. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Olympia.

Chewelah population, 2020 to 2024

Chewelah added 210 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.5%. In the latest year it moved by +18.

2,47720202,55320212,61920222,66920232,6872024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,473. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Chewelah covers 2.95 square miles of land, for 911 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Chewelah is less dense than the typical town.

What county Chewelah is in

All of Chewelah's residents live in Stevens County, which had 49,015 residents in 2024. Chewelah holds 5.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chewelah

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Chewelah by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99109. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Chewelah is

The Census internal point of Chewelah is at 48.282600, -117.716900. Olympia, the capital, is 256.1 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Colville, WA (5,009 people), 19.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Spokane, WA, 44.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
48.282600, -117.716900
DMS
48°16'57.36"N 117°43'0.84"W
UTM
11N 446815.4E 5347959.2N
Geohash
c2s69m94t
Plus code
85W477MM+26

Daylight in Chewelah

At 48.28° N, Chewelah gets about 16 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Chewelah

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is Colville, 20.0 miles away, with 5,009 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Chewelah, WA?

2,687 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 210 (8.5%) from 2,477 in July 2020.

What county is Chewelah in?

Stevens County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Chewelah?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 99109.

How far is Chewelah from Olympia?

256.1 miles (412.1 km) in a straight line, heading WSW from Chewelah.

What is the nearest larger city to Chewelah?

Colville, WA, with 5,009 residents, 19.9 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.