Baring, Washington
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Snoqualmie Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98224. It stands on Index Creek. The Survey maps it on the Baring quadrangle. 255 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 774 feet above sea level.
On record in Baring
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
Baring Bridgelisted 2019
Population over time
3 figuresBaring grew from 233 to 255 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 233 | |
| 2010 | 220 | -13 (-6%) |
| 2020 | 255 | +35 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1902 USGS Skykomish quadrangle1:125000
- 1905 USGS Skykomish quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1957 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Baring quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Skykomish River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
37 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Baring between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | BARCLAY LAKE |
| 4 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | LAKE SERENE |
| 3 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 28 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 18 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | LOWE |
| 18 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | not named |
| 17 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources | SUNSET FALLS |
| 3 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 78 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 78 workings within 5 miles of Baring: 35 occurrences, 18 prospects, 16 past producers, 8 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Limestone, General, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson | Iron, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper, Titanium, Metal | Occurrence | Galena, Magnetite, Sphalerite | |
| Anderson | Iron, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Contact Metamorphic | |
| Barclay Creek | Garnet | Occurrence | ||
| Baring Iron Deposit | Iron, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Buckeye | Copper, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite | |
| Ellis Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Gunn Peak Prospect | Gold, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | Bornite, Chalcopyrite | |
| Gunn Peak Prospect | Copper, Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Index Bornite Prospect | Silver, Copper | Occurrence | Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite | |
| Lake Serene | Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grotto | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Miller River | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Skykomish | 8.0 miles | 16 | |
| Nordrum (historical) | 15.0 miles | 18 | |
| Junction | 20.1 miles | 18 | |
| Ernies Grove | 21.4 miles | 16 | |
| Ellisville | 22.6 miles | 18 | |
| Tokul | 23.1 miles | 18 |
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 Baring | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1502800 | The 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 1516134. 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.




