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Castle Rock, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Castle Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98611. It stands on Whittle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Castle Rock quadrangle. 2,446 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 59 feet above sea level.

Castle Rock within Cowlitz County

On record in Castle Rock

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Castle Rock grew from 1,982 to 2,446 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
20101,982
20202,446+464 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Castle Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Recreation and ceremony22
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5
Fireworks5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes2
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
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters700
4 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCUT AND RUN
25 September 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowlitz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Castle Rock: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Stone. 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
Ash QuarryStonePast Producer
AyersIronOccurrence
Section 4AluminumOccurrence
Cms Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Open PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cowlitz River BarSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Horsley Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
McKone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
N-145 ExtSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cowlitz County

Storms near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castle Rock in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 4 flood, 3 heavy rain. 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 2015FloodCastle Rock$1,799,000The Cowlitz River flooded near Castle Rock and Kelso. The heavy rain caused a large land slide in Woodland that closed I-5 overnight.
January 2022FloodCastle Rock-The gauge on the Cowlitz River at Kelso rose above flood stage of 21.5 feet at 1330PST, crested at 24.0 feet at 2130PST, the dropped below flood stage on the 7th at 2300PST. There were reports of several side road closed due to flood waters.
January 2009FloodCastle Rock-Heavy rain caused major flooding on the Cowlitz River near Castle Rock.
January 2007Heavy RainCastle Rock-A total accumulation of 2.13 inches was reported at Castle Rock.
January 2007Heavy RainCastle Rock-A total accumulation of 1.90 inches was reported at the Abernathy Mountain RAWS.
November 2006FloodCastle Rock-The Cowlitz River at Castle Rock crested at 49.8 feet on November 7th, with a flood stage of 48.0 feet.
November 2006Heavy RainCastle Rock-Recorded a 5-day total of 11.0 inches at Coldwater Ridge Visitors Center.

Every storm recorded in Cowlitz 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
Sandy Bend2.4 miles11
Pleasant Hill3.5 miles11
Silver Lake5.4 miles11
Ostrander5.8 miles11
Lexington6.1 miles11
Headquarters6.4 miles12
Beacon Hill6.9 miles11
Olequa7.0 miles11

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 Castle RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1023555The 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 1512072. 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.