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Amboy, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Yacolt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98675. It stands on Chelatchie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amboy quadrangle. 1,800 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.

Amboy within Clark County

On record in Amboy

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

Amboy fell from 2,085 to 1,800 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
20002,085
20101,608-477 (-23%)
20201,800+192 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Amboy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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
Debris and open burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony13
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes4
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters354TH ST
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWIEHL
7 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersAMBOY RD
3 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWEST GARNER
3 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLONG DRIVE
28 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPUP FIRE
24 September 1992Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Amboy: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Nichols PitStonePast Producer
Colt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Maple QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amboy in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2021Thunderstorm WindAmboy$10,000Storm Survey for convective wind damage around 1 pm at Lake Merwin, WA. Somewhat significant tree damage at the Woodland Park area, as well as a fresh large tree, roughly 2 feet, snapped near the Lewis River RV park.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Yacolt3.7 miles15
Chelatchie3.8 miles14
Fargher Lake3.9 miles14
Dayton4.5 miles14
Cedarville4.6 miles14
Lucia5.0 miles15
Hall5.6 miles14
Moulton6.2 miles15

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 AmboyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515830The 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 1515846. 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.