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Bellingham, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Bellingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98225. It stands on Whatcom Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bellingham North quadrangle. 91,482 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 72 feet above sea level.

Bellingham within Whatcom County

On record in Bellingham

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 12 of 45 shown

Every listing in Whatcom County

Population over time

2 figures

Bellingham grew from 80,885 to 91,482 between 2010 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
201080,885
202091,482+10,597 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

80 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Bellingham between 1993 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 ceremony31
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking8
Fireworks6
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCALIFORNIA STREET MAPLE
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBLACKBERRY YARD
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCOTTONWOOD
23 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTUART RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bellingham: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Flagstone, Magnesite. 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
Chuckanut Bay QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
GrandviewClayPast Producer
Olivine MillMagnesitePast Producer
Griffin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Whatcom County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellingham in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 1 waterspout, 1 heavy rain. 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 2023Heavy RainSouth Bellingham-A record rainfall of 1.58 inches was set at Bellingham Airport on October 24th, breaking the old record of 0.9 set in 2001.
October 1997WaterspoutBellingham-A brief waterspout was observed by a spotter, it came onshore and quickly dissipated.

Every storm recorded in Whatcom 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
Washington Colony (historical)0.5 miles17
Parkview1.5 miles17
Birchwood1.6 miles13
Roosevelt1.9 miles17
Eureka1.9 miles17
Alderwood2.2 miles13
Lakeway2.5 miles14
South Bellingham2.8 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 BellinghamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q430267The 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 1512001. 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.