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Burlington, Washington

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Burlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98233. It stands on Burlington Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 9,152 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Burlington within Skagit County

On record in Burlington

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

Burlington grew from 8,388 to 9,152 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
20108,388
20209,152+764 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Burlington between 1993 and 2019, burning about 17 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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 ceremony11
Fireworks6
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
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 August 1993Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 August 1998Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 August 2017Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBIG ROCK
24 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCREST ADVANTAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Burlington: 21 unknowns, 11 producers, 11 past producers, 2 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Asbestos. 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
BurlingtonAsbestosPast Producer
BurlingtonStoneOccurrence
BurlingtonPalladiumUnknown
TilonClayPast Producer
BellevilleManganeseProspect1940
Belleville PropertyManganeseOccurrencePyrolusite
Dept. of HighwaysStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Ianicki QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northwest Talc and Magnesium Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Sedro WoolleyStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
Chuckanut Junction0.9 miles21
Sterling2.6 miles21
Avon3.6 miles19
Mount Vernon3.8 miles21
Allen3.9 miles14
Baker Heights4.7 miles21
Clear Lake4.9 miles16
Sedro-Woolley5.1 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 BurlingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1144352The 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 1512052. 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.