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Bremerton, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Bremerton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98337. The Survey maps it on the Bremerton West quadrangle. 43,505 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Bremerton within Kitsap County

On record in Bremerton

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 11 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bremerton grew from 37,729 to 43,505 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
201037,729
202043,505+5,776 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bremerton between 1992 and 2018, burning about 10 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
30 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDOWN TIMBER
29 August 2002Smoking2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 August 2002Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
16 August 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 July 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPACE BLANKET
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.3 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWERNER RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kitsap County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Bremerton: 20 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. 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
Kitsap QuarryStoneProducer
Port OrchardClayPast Producer
Bourn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Charleston QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Olsen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pioneer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Reynolds QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Waterman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wilson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kitsap County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bremerton in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 1999: 1 debris flow, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
March 1997Heavy RainBremerton3 hurt, $750,000no account filed
July 1999LightningBremerton1 hurtA woman was injured after being struck by lightning. She was released from the hospital the next day with an aching arm and a headache.
January 1997Debris FlowBremerton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kitsap 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
Manette1.1 miles13
Sheridan Park1.2 miles14
Charleston1.5 miles14
Annapolis1.5 miles13
Sheridan1.7 miles14
Retsil1.9 miles13
Port Orchard1.9 miles14
Navy Yard City1.9 miles14

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 BremertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q695417The 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 1512028. 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.