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.
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
Farrell Buildinglisted 2006
Pittock Houselisted 1979
John Roffler Houselisted 1993
US Post Office-Camas Mainlisted 1991
Population over time
2 figuresCamas 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 19,355 | |
| 2020 | 26,065 | +6,710 (+35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 24 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.
- 1918 USGS Troutdale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1934 USGS Troutdale quadrangle1:48000
- 1941 USGS Camas quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Camas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Camas quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Camas quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Camas quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Camas quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Camas quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
38 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | STOREDAHL |
| 2 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area | SANDY 2 |
| 16 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 10 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area | SANDY JUNCTION |
| 9 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | RIVERBEND |
| 8 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 27 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SR 14 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 34 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Troutdale Smelter | Aluminum | Plant | ||
| Camas Placer | Titanium, Iron, Gold | Unknown | ||
| Image | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Red Rock Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Washington | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Midvale Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Washougal Pit | Iron | Producer | ||
| Washougal Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | Magnetite | |
| Haag & Shaw Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2023Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Camas | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Park | 0.7 miles | 24 | |
| Parker Landing Light | 1.1 miles | 24 | |
| Parkersville | 1.4 miles | 24 | |
| Washougal | 2.5 miles | 24 | |
| Fern Prairie | 3.4 miles | 23 | |
| Sunnyside | 4.2 miles | 21 | |
| Ireland | 5.2 miles | 21 | |
| Fisher | 5.5 miles | 33 |
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 Camas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1507709 | 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 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.













