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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.

Carson within Skamania County

Population over time

2 figures

Carson 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,279
20202,323+44 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

187 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use22
Debris and open burning22
Smoking11
Fireworks10
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism7
Other causes4
Firearms and explosives 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 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOLD STATE RD
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEL REY
6 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaOLD WYETH
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaWYETH RANGE
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresGifford Pinchot National ForestBEAR CREEK
4 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPOWERLINE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skamania County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
St. Martin Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
StevensonAluminumOccurrence
StevensonPerliteOccurrence
StevensonDiatomiteOccurrence
Cascade Locks Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Island Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Keller PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stevenson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cascade Locks Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fountain SlideSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Skamania County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2015Heavy RainCarson$128,000Heavy rain resulted in small stream flooding and land slides across Skamania County.
May 2017HailCarson-A trained spotter reported 1.25 inch hail 5 miles NNW of Carson, OR.

Every storm recorded in Skamania 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
Saint Martins Hot Springs1.2 miles13
Home Valley2.9 miles13
Stevenson4.0 miles14
Fort Rains7.3 miles14
Stabler7.4 miles15
Cook8.5 miles16
Moffetts Hot Springs8.8 miles14
Mill A9.2 miles15

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 CarsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q390526The 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.