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Camas, Washington

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Camas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98607. It stands on Lacamas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Camas quadrangle. 26,065 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Camas within Clark County

On record in Camas

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Camas grew from 19,355 to 26,065 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
201019,355
202026,065+6,710 (+35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Camas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 299 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTOREDAHL
2 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY 2
16 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY JUNCTION
9 August 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRIVERBEND
8 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 August 1999Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSR 14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Camas: 19 past producers, 11 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 plant. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
(Facility) Troutdale SmelterAluminumPlant
Camas PlacerTitanium, Iron, GoldUnknown
ImageClayPast Producer
Red Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
WashingtonGoldUnknown
Midvale QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Washougal PitIronProducer
Washougal ProspectIronOccurrenceMagnetite
Haag & Shaw PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camas in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2023Funnel CloudCamas-Social Media video shared via Twitter showed a funnel cloud with observable rotation. The person was located in Camas, WA near SE 2nd Ave and SE Cedar St facing south towards the Columbia River. A media article shared another video of the waterspout over the Camas Slough and stated that the waterspout was observed for several minutes.

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
Oak Park0.7 miles24
Parker Landing Light1.1 miles24
Parkersville1.4 miles24
Washougal2.5 miles24
Fern Prairie3.4 miles23
Sunnyside4.2 miles21
Ireland5.2 miles21
Fisher5.5 miles33

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 CamasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1507709The 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 1512059. 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.