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Bingen, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the White Salmon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98605. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the White Salmon quadrangle. 778 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

Bingen within Klickitat County

Population over time

2 figures

Bingen grew from 712 to 778 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
2010712
2020778+66 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

296 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Bingen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,655 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Railroad operations and maintenance33
Recreation and ceremony32
Smoking26
Fireworks26
Equipment and vehicle use25
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Arson/incendiarism12
Natural12
Other causes8
Misuse of fire by a minor6

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
9 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1998Other causes1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresThe Dalles UnitMOSIER EAST
7 September 1992Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaCATHERINE
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,644 acresSoutheast Region-Department of Natural ResourcesHIGHWAY 141

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 59 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Bingen: 44 past producers, 14 producers, 1 unknown. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Klickitat Co. PitsStone, DimensionPast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
CoveStonePast Producer
Cove Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dollar Pit 1920 TrsStonePast Producer
Dollar Pit 1920 TrsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
East PitStonePast Producer
East PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
George Property QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Klickitat 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
White Salmon1.5 miles15
Laws Corner3.4 miles15
Straight Point3.8 miles15
Mountain Brook5.9 miles15
Husum5.9 miles15
Klickitat Heights8.8 miles15
Lyle9.5 miles16
B Z Corner9.6 miles15

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 BingenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q863770The 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 1503378. 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.