Chinook, Washington
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Naselle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98614. The Survey maps it on the Chinook quadrangle. 457 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
On record in Chinook
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 2 records
Chinook PointNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966- Fort Columbialisted 2025
Population over time
3 figuresChinook grew from 457 to 457 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 457 | |
| 2010 | 466 | +9 (+2%) |
| 2020 | 457 | -9 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1938 USGS Fort Columbia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Fort Columbia quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Chinook quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Astoria quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Chinook quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
13 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Chinook between 1993 and 2019, burning about 148 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | BATTERY 245 |
| 3 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | GETTY FIRE |
| 17 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 27 acres | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | SOUTH JETTY |
| 29 August 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LOOP RD |
| 21 August 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 18 August 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | BLACK JETTY |
| 31 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WALBERG |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Chinook: 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Limestone, General, Titanium, Metal, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook Black Sands | Titanium, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Hammond-Mcgowan-Columbia Placer | Titanium, Metal, Iron | Occurrence | Ilmenite, Magnetite | |
| Mc Gowan Placer | Iron, Titanium, Zirconium | Prospect | ||
| Mc Gowan Querry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Megler | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Sand Island Placer | Gold, Iron, Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| Bear River | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Bear River | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Chinook Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Provo Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McGowan | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Stringtown | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Megler | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Ilwaco | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Fort Canby | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Pacific City (historical) | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Oceanview | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Holman | 6.9 miles | 11 |
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 Chinook | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1323084 | 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 1512091. 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.








