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Aberdeen, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Aberdeen-Hoquiam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98520. It stands on Wishkah River. The Survey maps it on the Aberdeen quadrangle. 17,013 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Aberdeen within Grays Harbor County

On record in Aberdeen

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Aberdeen grew from 16,896 to 17,013 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201016,896
202017,013+117 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Aberdeen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 were 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
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Fireworks4
Natural3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersABERDEEN LAKE #2
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePacific Cascade Region-DNRHUNTLEY
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBISHOP
13 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersENDERSON ROAD
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSKUNK CABAGE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Aberdeen: 15 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Gold, Platinum, Gold. 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
Cow Point PlacerGoldOccurrence
HoquiamGold, PlatinumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Hoquiam QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
East AberdeenSilicaPast Producer
West AberdeenSilicaPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Central Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Charmin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aberdeen in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2009: 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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
January 2009FloodAberdeen$1,200,000Nearly 50 roads were closed in the county. The closed roads caused many school districts to cancel classes. Several businesses also closed. Near Copalis Crossing, the Humptulips River flooded several homes. A few homes near Elma were also flooded.
December 1999Heavy RainAberdeen$20,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grays Harbor 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
East Aberdeen0.7 miles9
South Aberdeen0.8 miles9
Bel-Aire0.9 miles9
Pilgrim Heights0.9 miles9
North Aberdeen1.0 miles9
Broadway Heights1.2 miles9
Herbig Heights1.4 miles9
Junction City2.3 miles9

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 AberdeenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q233808The 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 1511950. 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.