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Bucoda, Washington

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Thurston South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98530. The Survey maps it on the Bucoda quadrangle. 600 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 266 feet above sea level.

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Bucoda within Thurston County

On record in Bucoda

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Bucoda grew from 562 to 600 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
2010562
2020600+38 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Bucoda between 1992 and 2019, burning about 122 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Fireworks3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 1996Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1997Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution6.4 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBUCODA
10 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBACK 2 BACK
4 August 2003Debris 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 Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Bucoda: 9 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Flagstone, Silica. 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
Bucoda PitClay, PeatPast Producer
CentraliaSilicaOccurrence
BrownClayPast Producer
Hercules QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Western QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Crowder PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stevens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tono A DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Tono B DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucoda in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2009: 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
January 2009FloodBucoda$3,200,000There was flooding along the Skookumchuck River, dozens of homes in Bucoda flooded. Several roads in the area were also flooded, including SR 507.
November 2006FloodBucoda$100,000Record flooding occurred on the Cowlitz, Nooksack, Puyallup, Nisqually, |Skykomish, Stillaguamish, Carbon, Snoqualmie, and Bogachiel. Major flooding occurred on the Tolt, Snohomish, Skokomish, Skagit, and White rivers. Other rivers flooding were the Satsop, Cedar, Wynoochee, Elwha, Deschutes, Dungeness, Skookumchuck, and Chehalis.
April 1994Tornado (F0)Bucoda$50,000A tornado touched down near the main street of Bucoda. Several buildings sustained damage. Damage included aluminum sheds blown over or moved, rain gutters torn off buildings, and a twisted street sign. A piece of one aluminum shed was seen 80 feet above the ground caught in a tree.

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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
Tono2.9 miles21
Tenino4.1 miles21
Sunnydale4.1 miles20
Chaenn Hill5.8 miles21
McIntosh6.6 miles21
Essex7.3 miles14
Grand Mound7.5 miles14
Maytown7.8 miles21

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 BucodaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1510567The 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 1531901. 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.