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Black Diamond, Washington

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Enumclaw Plateau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98010. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Black Diamond quadrangle. 4,697 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Black Diamond within King County

On record in Black Diamond

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Black Diamond grew from 4,151 to 4,697 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
20104,151
20204,697+546 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Black Diamond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 1997Fireworks3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGREEN RIVER GORGE
2 August 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 August 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestFRANKLIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Black Diamond: 13 past producers, 7 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Arsenic, Aluminum. 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
Blum PitClayPast Producer
DobroffIronOccurrence
Franklin ArsenicArsenic, SilverProspect
Royal Reward MineMercury, Arsenic, AntimonyPast Producer1875, 1957
Franklin Silica SandSilicaProspect
Ravensdale PitSilicaProducer
Blum Hi-Alumina Clay DepositAluminumProspect
Byrd ProspectMercuryOccurrence
Cardinal Reward MineMercury, ArsenicOccurrence1958
Green River Hi-Alumina ClaysAluminumProspect

Every working recorded in King County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black Diamond in 1 storm report in 2008: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Funnel CloudBlack Diamond-Funnel cloud reached about half way toward the ground.

Every storm 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
Morganville1.0 miles24
Kummer1.8 miles24
One Hundred One Pines2.1 miles24
Henrys2.6 miles24
Franklin2.7 miles13
Ravensdale3.2 miles13
Georgetown3.7 miles13
Summit3.7 miles24

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 Black DiamondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1191152The 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 1516603. 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.