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Chelan Falls, Washington

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Chelan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98817. It stands on Chelan River. The Survey maps it on the Chelan Falls quadrangle. 340 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Chelan Falls within Chelan County

Population over time

2 figures

Chelan Falls grew from 329 to 340 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
2010329
2020340+11 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Chelan Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 97,325 acres in total. 10 started naturally. None 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
Natural10
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Other causes4
Firearms and explosives use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersUNION 3
13 September 1996Natural175 acresSpokane DistrictDEER MTN
5 August 2003Natural440 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestTHE BUTTE
3 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined156 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFOOTHILLS
17 August 2018Naturalunder an acreSpokane DistrictFOOT HILLS
17 August 2018Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROSEMARY COURT
17 August 2018Natural20 acresSpokane DistrictPOWER HOUSE
14 August 2015Natural88,484 acresSpokane DistrictREACH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chelan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Chelan Falls: 10 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Pumice, Mica. 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
ChelanClayPast Producer
Chelan ButteTinOccurrence
Chelan Falls DepositMicaPast Producer
Chelan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
StaymenPumiceOccurrence
ButteGoldUnknown
CookGoldPast Producer
Kingsman and PershallGoldPast Producer
Lakeside PlacerGoldProspect
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chelan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chelan Falls in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 debris flow. 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
May 2015Debris FlowChelan Falls-A trained spotter relayed police reports on a scanner of several small rock and mud slides on highway 150 between Manson, Washington and Chelan, Washington.

Every storm recorded in Chelan 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
Chelan3.2 miles14
Lakeside4.1 miles14
Lake Chelan Hills5.4 miles14
Stayman6.0 miles14
Maplecreek8.2 miles14
Sunnybank9.6 miles14
Manson10.8 miles13
Azwell11.0 miles9

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 Chelan FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5089810The 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 1517645. 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.