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Acme, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Whatcom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98220. It stands on Jones Creek. The Survey maps it on the Acme quadrangle. 229 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 305 feet above sea level.

Acme within Whatcom County

On record in Acme

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Acme fell from 263 to 229 between 2000 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
2000263
2010246-17 (-6%)
2020229-17 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Acme between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
9 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 August 1994Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 August 2009Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHUTCHISON CK
28 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTANDARD CREEK
26 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPOTTER ROAD
18 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLOST BOYS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Acme: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Acme PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Whatcom 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
Comar1.0 miles12
Saxon2.2 miles12
Doran2.7 miles12
Clipper3.0 miles11
Mirror Lake3.9 miles12
Wickersham4.3 miles12
Blue Canyon4.5 miles13
Van Zandt5.0 miles11

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 AcmeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1510236The 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 1515719. 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.