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Ashford, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Eatonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98304. The Survey maps it on the Ashford quadrangle. 303 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,762 feet above sea level.

Ashford within Pierce County

On record in Ashford

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

3 figures

Ashford grew from 267 to 303 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
2000267
2010217-50 (-19%)
2020303+86 (+40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Ashford between 1994 and 2020, burning about 27 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 ceremony28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking4
Debris and open burning3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSKATE CREEK ROAD
25 September 1994Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGifford Pinchot National ForestCOPPER
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBEAVER HILL
16 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKIBBELS
15 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce 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 Ashford: 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
Messler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
National1.3 miles15
Park Junction5.8 miles15
Elbe8.6 miles15
Longmire11.6 miles23
Reliance12.5 miles19
New Reliance13.0 miles19
Alder14.0 miles19
Eatonville14.6 miles19

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 AshfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1508024The 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 1515969. 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.