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.
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
Burlington Carnegie Librarylisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresBurlington 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,388 | |
| 2020 | 9,152 | +764 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1911 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
28 since 1993Regional 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 ceremony | 11 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 August 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 29 August 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 26 August 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.2 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BIG ROCK |
| 24 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 23 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CREST ADVANTAGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 46 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington | Asbestos | Past Producer | ||
| Burlington | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Burlington | Palladium | Unknown | ||
| Tilon | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Belleville | Manganese | Prospect | 1940 | |
| Belleville Property | Manganese | Occurrence | Pyrolusite | |
| Dept. of Highways | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Ianicki Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Northwest Talc and Magnesium Co. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Sedro Woolley | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chuckanut Junction | 0.9 miles | 21 | |
| Sterling | 2.6 miles | 21 | |
| Avon | 3.6 miles | 19 | |
| Mount Vernon | 3.8 miles | 21 | |
| Allen | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Baker Heights | 4.7 miles | 21 | |
| Clear Lake | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Sedro-Woolley | 5.1 miles | 12 |
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 Burlington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1144352 | The 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.








