Carson, Washington
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Carson-Underwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98610. It stands on Carson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carson quadrangle. 2,323 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 469 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCarson grew from 2,279 to 2,323 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 | 2,279 | |
| 2020 | 2,323 | +44 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1926 USGS Hood River quadrangle1:125000
- 1929 USGS Hood River quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Bonneville Dam quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS The Dalles quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Hood River quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Carson quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
187 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Carson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,505 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 7 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 | 43 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Firearms and explosives 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | OLD STATE RD |
| 6 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | DEL REY |
| 6 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area | OLD WYETH |
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area | WYETH RANGE |
| 5 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 acres | Gifford Pinchot National Forest | BEAR CREEK |
| 4 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | POWERLINE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Carson: 13 past producers, 6 producers, 3 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Perlite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Martin Hot Springs | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Stevenson | Aluminum | Occurrence | ||
| Stevenson | Perlite | Occurrence | ||
| Stevenson | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Cascade Locks Pit and Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Island Rock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Keller Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Stevenson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Cascade Locks Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fountain Slide | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carson in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2017: 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | Carson | $128,000 | Heavy rain resulted in small stream flooding and land slides across Skamania County. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Carson | - | A trained spotter reported 1.25 inch hail 5 miles NNW of Carson, OR. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Martins Hot Springs | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Home Valley | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Stevenson | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Fort Rains | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Stabler | 7.4 miles | 15 | |
| Cook | 8.5 miles | 16 | |
| Moffetts Hot Springs | 8.8 miles | 14 | |
| Mill A | 9.2 miles | 15 |
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 Carson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q390526 | 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 1512068. 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.







