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Bay View, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Bay View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98273. It stands on Indian Slough. The Survey maps it on the La Conner quadrangle. 812 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Bay View within Skagit County

Population over time

3 figures

Bay View grew from 334 to 812 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
2000334
2010696+362 (+108%)
2020812+116 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Bay View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBAYVIEW
24 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROTTEN DOG
10 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCLEO ROSE
8 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 July 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersQUARRY
22 July 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHAT ISLAND 2
20 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBAY ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Bay View: 5 producers, 5 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Palladium. 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
BurlingtonPalladiumUnknown
Dot IslandStoneOccurrence
Hat IslandStoneOccurrence
Saddlebag IslandStoneOccurrence
Concrete Nor West, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dept. of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gorton Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Knudson, Harold, Jr.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nordlund Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
Leary2.0 miles14
Whitney2.5 miles19
Fredonia3.1 miles19
Whitmarsh Junction3.4 miles14
Fidalgo5.0 miles14
Swinomish Village5.5 miles14
Sunset5.7 miles14
Sharpes Corner5.7 miles14

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 Bay ViewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1502228The 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 1516198. 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.