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Carbonado, Washington

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Buckley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98323. It stands on Lily Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wilkeson quadrangle. 734 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,191 feet above sea level.

Carbonado within Pierce County

Population over time

2 figures

Carbonado grew from 610 to 734 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
2010610
2020734+124 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Carbonado between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Other causes3
Fireworks3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters156TH SREET
7 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH PRAIRIE CREEK
5 September 1997Natural2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1994Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersUPPER CARBON
18 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Carbonado: 15 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Flagstone, Clay. 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
Cowling Ridge AreaClay, Stone, DimensionOccurrence
Fairfax QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Walker QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Burlington Northern QuarryStonePast Producer
Carbon Ridge BlowdownStonePast Producer
Clearwest-Westfork PitStonePast Producer
Road 0602 Pit 1818StonePast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Wilkeson1.8 miles26
Burnett3.4 miles29
Cascade Junction4.2 miles29
South Prairie4.8 miles29
Fairfax5.1 miles26
Croker5.6 miles29
Upper Fairfax5.8 miles26
Buckley5.9 miles29

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 CarbonadoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516263The 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 1517390. 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.