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Brinnon, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Quilcene Bay-Brinnon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98320. It stands on Walkers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brinnon quadrangle. 907 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 56 feet above sea level.

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Brinnon within Jefferson County

On record in Brinnon

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

3 figures

Brinnon grew from 803 to 907 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
2000803
2010797-6 (-1%)
2020907+110 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Brinnon between 1992 and 2018, burning about 68 acres in total. 1 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 burning10
Recreation and ceremony8
Fireworks5
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPAYNE
27 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 September 2003Fireworks12 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
16 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 August 1997Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOT SPIT
19 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Brinnon: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bucks Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Collins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Davies PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pierce PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Seabheck PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brinnon in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2015: 2 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 debris flow. 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
December 2007Heavy RainBrinnon$3,000,000A house was knocked off its foundation by flood waters.
December 2014FloodBrinnon$300,000Fire District 4 suffered major flood damage to Station 42, near the Duckabush River. The station is reported to be a total loss (at one point fire personnel measured more than 5 feet of water in the station with fire apparatus still inside) The loss of the station and equipment is estimated at nearly $200,000. About 6 homes in the area suffered damage.
February 2015Debris FlowBrinnon$150,000A mudslide was reported near Shorewood Road and Kelly Road in Brinnon, off Duckabush Road. The slide reportedly blocked the road and damaged five or six homes.
February 2015FloodBrinnon$50,000A National Weather Service spotter reported that 4.43 inches of rain fell in the area between 4 p.m. Thursday and 7:30 a.m. Friday.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Lackawanna Beach2.1 miles17
Seal Rock2.5 miles17
Duckabush2.6 miles17
Coyle5.1 miles16
Bees Mill6.2 miles12
Quilcene9.9 miles13
East Quilcene10.5 miles12
Camp Discovery10.7 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 BrinnonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q612805The 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 1516959. 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.