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.
Population over time
3 figuresBlyn 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 162 | |
| 2010 | 101 | -61 (-38%) |
| 2020 | 108 | +7 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1938 USGS Dungeness quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Dungeness quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Sequim quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1979 USGS Port Angeles quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
54 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 27 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 24 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 22 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | EAST RADAR |
| 19 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 18 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 17 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 11 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Come Lately Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Olympic Peninsula Mn - 0530310200 | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Coal Lake Pit and Mill | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Evans Creek Pit No 1 | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Evans Creek Pit No 2 | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| One Ok Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| P Line Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Almaden Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Blynn Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Blynn Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Harbor | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Bell Hill | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Happy Valley | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Port Williams | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Sequim | 6.4 miles | 13 | |
| River Road | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Jamestown | 8.5 miles | 8 | |
| Carlsborg | 10.0 miles | 12 |
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 Blyn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q886893 | 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 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.




