Mead

Mead is an unincorporated suburb and census-designated place north of Spokane in Spokane County, Washington, named for the Civil War general George Meade. In 1900 it was the second stop on the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway, and the community then had a general store, a blacksmith shop, a public school and a church. It sits at roughly 1,900 feet above sea level on flat terrain divided by Deadman Creek, which runs into the Little Spokane River, and is served by U.S. Routes 2 and 395. Mead is home to Cyan Worlds, the makers of Myst and Riven, and it gave its name to the Mead School District. The population of Mead was 7,576 in 2020.