Mead is an unincorporated suburb and census-designated place north of Spokane in Spokane County, Washington, United States. Named for Civil War general George Meade, this rural Place is tracked by the United States Census Bureau. As of 2010, the population of Mead was 7,275.

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 speculative with approximately 60 students, a Methodist Episcopal church, and a Sunday school. At the epoch the read out office was located in the Cushing & Bryant store.

The Mead School District, which is named after the town of Mead where its first theoretical was built, enrolls nearly 9000 students in two tall schools, two center schools, and eight elementary schools. Until 2019, the district had two choice tall 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.

Mead is house to the computer game expand firm, Cyan Worlds, makers of Myst and Riven. The Kaiser Aluminum Mead Works, which operated as a leading Place employer from 1942 until curtailment in 2001, is nearby.

Coordinates: 47°46′03″N 117°21′18″W / 47.76750°N 117.35500°W / 47.76750; -117.35500