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Algona, Washington

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Federal Way-Auburn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98001. The Survey maps it on the Poverty Bay quadrangle. 3,290 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 82 feet above sea level.

Algona within King County

Population over time

2 figures

Algona grew from 3,014 to 3,290 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
20103,014
20203,290+276 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Algona in 2012, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersG.R.C.C.
16 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHanford Reach National MonumentHANFORD TOWN SITE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Algona: 20 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. 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
American ConcreteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Auburn Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bremmeyer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Carl G. Olson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
County Line PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Firwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Heidinger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Main PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
Pacific1.0 miles24
Stuck1.3 miles23
Jovita2.0 miles24
Auburn2.3 miles23
Lakeland2.8 miles24
Kitts Corner3.5 miles24
Christopher3.9 miles23
Federal Way4.4 miles24

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 AlgonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q514836The 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 1511959. 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.