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Cathcart, Washington

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Maltby census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98296. It stands on Evans Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maltby quadrangle. 2,647 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

Cathcart within Snohomish County

Population over time

3 figures

Cathcart fell from 3,015 to 2,647 between 2000 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
20003,015
20102,458-557 (-18%)
20202,647+189 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cathcart between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Fireworks1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 July 2019Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLOST LAKE MULCH
19 July 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 June 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 April 1992Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLAST DIGGINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish 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 Cathcart: 13 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Monroe PitClayProducer
Snohomish Sand and Gravel IncLimestone, DimensionProducer
Bassett-Western PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cathcart PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Roosevelt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Skykomish River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish 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
Clearview1.7 miles26
Rees Corner2.1 miles26
Maltby3.0 miles26
Silver Firs3.2 miles26
South Snohomish3.6 miles26
Bromart3.6 miles26
Turner Corner3.8 miles26
Larimers Corner3.9 miles25

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 CathcartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1508281The 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 1512074. 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.