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Blyn, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sequim census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98382. It stands on Jimmycomelately Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sequim quadrangle. 108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Blyn within Clallam County

Population over time

3 figures

Blyn fell from 162 to 108 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
2000162
2010101-61 (-38%)
2020108+7 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Blyn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2003Recreation and ceremony20 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEAST RADAR
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 September 1992Debris and open burning16 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
11 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clallam 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 Blyn: 11 past producers, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. 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
Jimmy Come Lately QuarrySand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Olympic Peninsula Mn - 0530310200Sand and Gravel, Construction, ManganesePast Producer
Coal Lake Pit and MillStone, DimensionUnknown
Evans Creek Pit No 1Stone, DimensionUnknown
Evans Creek Pit No 2Stone, DimensionUnknown
One Ok QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
P Line QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Almaden PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blynn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blynn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam 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 Harbor4.4 miles13
Bell Hill4.8 miles13
Happy Valley5.1 miles13
Port Williams5.6 miles13
Sequim6.4 miles13
River Road7.3 miles12
Jamestown8.5 miles8
Carlsborg10.0 miles12

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 BlynAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q886893The 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 1516731. 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.