Bickleton, Washington
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Horse Heaven Hills Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99322. The Survey maps it on the Bickleton quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,018 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresBickleton fell from 113 to 92 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 | 113 | |
| 2010 | 88 | -25 (-22%) |
| 2020 | 92 | +4 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1916 USGS Arlington quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Bickleton quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Goldendale quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Bickleton between 1992 and 2018, burning about 346 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 41 acres | Yakama Agency | JOJO FIRE |
| 25 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PINE CREEK ROAD |
| 2 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Yakama Agency | NORTH BICKLETON |
| 1 August 1996 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 July 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 July 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 31 July 2010 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PINE CREEK |
| 3 July 1998 | Natural | 250 acres | Yakama Agency | JOJO#2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bickleton: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Ingram Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bickleton in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Hail | Bickleton | - | A member of the public reported quarter to golf ball size hail stones from a thunderstorm that was nearly stationary over the Bickleton area. |
| March 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Bickleton | - | Brief cold core funnel cloud observed. |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Bickleton | - | Lightning started several blazes that became known as the Sixprong Complex. Together, they consumed over 3500 acres and threatened several dozen structures in the Alderdale, Bickleton and Sixprong areas. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Bickleton | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Bickleton | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Bickleton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1510614 | 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 1512007. 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.





