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Mead is an unincorporated suburb and
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north of
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in
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. Named for Civil War general
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, this area is tracked by the
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. As of 2020, the population of Mead was 7,576. In 1900, Mead was the second stop on the Spokane Falls & Northern Railway. The community included the Cushing & Bryant general store, a blacksmith shop, a public school with approximately 60 students, a Methodist Episcopal church, and a Sunday school. At the time the post office was located in the Cushing & Bryant store. Mead is home to the
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development firm,
Cyan Worlds Cyan, Inc., doing business as Cyan Worlds, is an American video game developer and publisher based in Mead, Washington. Founded by brothers Rand Miller, Rand and Robyn Miller in 1987, the company created the Myst (series), ''Myst'' series. ...
, makers of ''
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'' and ''
Riven ''Riven: The Sequel to Myst'' is a 1997 adventure game developed by Cyan Productions and published by Red Orb Entertainment. The second installment of the ''Myst'' series, ''Riven'' was released for Mac and Windows personal computers on Oc ...
''. The Kaiser Aluminum Mead Works, which operated as a leading area employer from 1942 until curtailment in 2001, is nearby.


Geography

Mead is located in Spokane County just north of the city of Spokane, specifically the Hillyard and Shiloh Hills neighborhoods, and west of Fairwood and south of Colbert. The area is split into two developed areas by Deadman Creek, which runs roughly east-to-west through Mead before entering the
Little Spokane River The Little Spokane River is a major tributary of the Spokane River, approximately long, in eastern Washington in the United States. It drains a rural area of forested foothills and a farming valley north of the city of Spokane along the Idaho– ...
in neighboring Fairwood. The southern and older portion of Mead is roughly bounded by U.S. Route 395 on the west and a railroad on the east while the northern portion north of Deadman Creek spans both sides of Highway 2. Those two controlled-access roads converge on the western edge of Mead at a large spaghetti junction. The CDP of Mead comprises the former townsite of Mead in the south and an extension of newer development to the north, both of which are contiguous suburban areas within the Spokane urban area. The original townsite of Mead includes streets named 1st Avenue through 4th Avenue, and a Main Street, not to be confused with streets with the same name in the city of Spokane proper. Mead is well-connected with the northern portion of the Spokane urban area via Highway 2, U.S. Route 395 and as the southeastern terminus of Washington State Route 206. Market Street connects the area with Hillyard to the south and Farwell Road connects Mead with Fairwood to the west. Terrain in Mead is relatively flat, at approximately 1,900 feet above sea level, though the valley of Deadman Creek falls to below 1,800 feet and nearby hills immediately to the south and southeast of the community rise above 2,300 feet.


Transportation

* - U.S. 2 - to Newport (north) and
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(south) U.S. 2 passes north–south through Mead and is known as the Newport Highway in the area. * - U.S. 395 - to Colville (north) and
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(south) U.S. 395 passes north–south along the southwestern boundary of Mead. The highway is part of the
North Spokane Corridor The U.S. Route 395 North Spokane Corridor (NSC) is a freeway—with complete and currently operational—running north–south along the eastern border of Spokane, Washington and parts of unincorporated Spokane County to the north. The $2. ...
. * - State Route 206 - to
Mount Spokane Mount Spokane levation €”previously known as Mount Baldy until 1912 due to its pronounced bald spot—is a mountain in the northwest United States, located northeast of Spokane, Washington. Its summit is the highest point in Spokane County, a ...
(east) and Mead (west) Highway 206 runs west-to-east through Mead from its terminus at U.S. Route 2 to Mount Spokane.


Education

The
Mead School District Mead School District No. 354 was a public School district serving Mead and North Spokane communities for over 100 years. Over 10,000 students attend the 18 schools in the district which consists of two high schools, an alternative high school, ...
, which is named after the town of Mead where its first school was built, enrolls approximately 9000 students in two high schools, two middle schools, and eight elementary schools. Until 2019, the district had two choice high schools: Riverpoint Academy, a project-based STEAM+ high school, and M.E.A.D., an alternative high school. In 2019, facing financial and political pressure, the district closed both schools. The Mead School District comprises a significant portion of northern Spokane County stretching from Mount Spokane in the east, near the Idaho state line, to the Stevens County line in the west. The community of Mead gave its name to
Mead High School Mead High School (also Mead Senior High School, MHS) is a four-year public secondary school in Fairwood, Washington, United States, on the north side of the Spokane urban area. MHS is one of two traditional high schools in the Mead School Di ...
in neighboring Fairwood, but the school no longer serves the area. Instead, students in Mead attend Mount Spokane High School which is just west of the community on Washington State Route 206. Both Mead High School and Mount Spokane High School share a sports facility in Mead called Union Stadium. The facility cost $24 million to complete and was approved in a 2018 bond measure. Completed in 2020, the 4,500 seat facility is home to the football teams for both high schools in the Mead School District, and is a replacement for
Joe Albi Stadium Joe Albi Stadium was an outdoor multi-purpose stadium in Spokane, Washington, United States. It was located in the northwest part of the city, just east of the Spokane River. The stadium was primarily used for high school football, as a secondary ...
in Spokane which previously hosted the two programs.


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Mead School District
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