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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.

Baring within King County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Baring 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.

YearPeople Change
2000233
2010220-13 (-6%)
2020255+35 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 16 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

37 since 1993

Regional 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 ceremony18
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Other causes2
Smoking2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestBARCLAY LAKE
4 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestLAKE SERENE
3 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestLOWE
18 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forestnot named
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Region-Department of Natural ResourcesSUNSET FALLS
3 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 78 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
AndersonIron, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper, Titanium, MetalOccurrenceGalena, Magnetite, Sphalerite
AndersonIron, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperOccurrenceContact Metamorphic
Barclay CreekGarnetOccurrence
Baring Iron DepositIron, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
BuckeyeCopper, Silver, GoldPast ProducerBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite
Ellis QuarryGranitePast Producer
Gunn Peak ProspectGold, Silver, CopperOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite
Gunn Peak ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverProspect
Index Bornite ProspectSilver, CopperOccurrenceBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite
Lake SereneCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence

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
Grotto4.2 miles16
Miller River5.9 miles16
Skykomish8.0 miles16
Nordrum (historical)15.0 miles18
Junction20.1 miles18
Ernies Grove21.4 miles16
Ellisville22.6 miles18
Tokul23.1 miles18

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 BaringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1502800The 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.