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Ahtanum, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98903. The Survey maps it on the Yakima West quadrangle. 4,046 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,247 feet above sea level.

Ahtanum within Yakima County

Population over time

3 figures

Ahtanum fell from 4,181 to 4,046 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
20004,181
20103,601-580 (-14%)
20204,046+445 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Ahtanum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,140 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Fireworks46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning5
Firearms and explosives use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency42ND & MCCULLOUGH RD
6 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresYakama AgencyMEDOWBROK
18 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreYakama AgencyWILEY PASS
18 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreYakama AgencyWILEY RD
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined884 acresYakama AgencyNORTH BROWNSTOWN 2
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined344 acresYakama AgencyNORTH BROWNSTOWN
6 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined76 acresYakama AgencyAHTANUM RIDGE
6 August 2015Fireworksunder an acreYakama AgencySOUTH AHTANUM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ahtanum in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 hail. 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
July 2010HailAhtanum-Spotter reported thunderstorm with heavy rainfall and hail to nickel size.

Every storm recorded in Yakima 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
Wiley City1.5 miles15
Harwood2.4 miles15
West Valley2.4 miles17
Summitview2.8 miles15
Elliott Ave3.2 miles15
Gromore4.5 miles15
Tietonview Grange5.1 miles15
Brace5.3 miles16

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 AhtanumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1510200The 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 1511952. 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.

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.