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Brush Prairie, Washington

33 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Battle Ground census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98606. It stands on Weaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orchards quadrangle. 2,749 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 302 feet above sea level.

Brush Prairie within Clark County

Population over time

3 figures

Brush Prairie grew from 2,384 to 2,749 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
20002,384
20102,652+268 (+11%)
20202,749+97 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 33 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Brush Prairie between 1992 and 2019, burning about 33 acres in total. None 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 burning8
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks2

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 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBAKER CREEK RD.
21 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBLACK GRASS
14 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters148TH STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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 Brush Prairie: 10 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gold, Titanium, Iron. 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
Brush Prairie PlacerGold, Titanium, IronProspect
Finn Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bokemier Iron DepositIronProspect
Howland Acres ProspectIronOccurrenceLimonite
Daybreak PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Homan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smith Brothers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brush Prairie in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 hail. 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
May 2004HailBrush Prairie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Union1.7 miles33
Meadow Glade1.9 miles16
Scotton Corner2.4 miles16
Homan3.0 miles33
Manor3.1 miles16
Battle Ground West3.2 miles16
Hockinson3.2 miles23
Battle Ground3.4 miles16

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 Brush PrairieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1502728The 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 1512040. 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.