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.
Population over time
2 figuresChelan 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 329 | |
| 2020 | 340 | +11 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Ritzville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Chelan Falls quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 2004 USGS Chelan Falls quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
32 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | UNION 3 |
| 13 September 1996 | Natural | 175 acres | Spokane District | DEER MTN |
| 5 August 2003 | Natural | 440 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | THE BUTTE |
| 3 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 156 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | FOOTHILLS |
| 17 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Spokane District | FOOT HILLS |
| 17 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | ROSEMARY COURT |
| 17 August 2018 | Natural | 20 acres | Spokane District | POWER HOUSE |
| 14 August 2015 | Natural | 88,484 acres | Spokane District | REACH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chelan | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Chelan Butte | Tin | Occurrence | ||
| Chelan Falls Deposit | Mica | Past Producer | ||
| Chelan Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Staymen | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Butte | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Cook | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Kingsman and Pershall | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Lakeside Placer | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Debris Flow | Chelan 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chelan | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Lakeside | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Lake Chelan Hills | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Stayman | 6.0 miles | 14 | |
| Maplecreek | 8.2 miles | 14 | |
| Sunnybank | 9.6 miles | 14 | |
| Manson | 10.8 miles | 13 | |
| Azwell | 11.0 miles | 9 |
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 Falls | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5089810 | 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 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.




