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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.

Chinook within Pacific County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Chinook 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.

YearPeople Change
2000457
2010466+9 (+2%)
2020457-9 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

13 since 1993

Regional 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 ceremony8
Fireworks2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
4 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBATTERY 245
3 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGETTY FIRE
17 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 2015Recreation and ceremony27 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSOUTH JETTY
29 August 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLOOP RD
21 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBLACK JETTY
31 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWALBERG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pacific County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chinook Black SandsTitanium, IronOccurrence
Hammond-Mcgowan-Columbia PlacerTitanium, Metal, IronOccurrenceIlmenite, Magnetite
Mc Gowan PlacerIron, Titanium, ZirconiumProspect
Mc Gowan QuerryFlagstonePast Producer
MeglerSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Sand Island PlacerGold, Iron, TitaniumOccurrence
Bear RiverLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Bear RiverLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Chinook QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Provo QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pacific 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
McGowan2.7 miles18
Stringtown2.9 miles17
Megler4.9 miles17
Ilwaco5.8 miles11
Fort Canby5.8 miles11
Pacific City (historical)5.9 miles11
Oceanview6.8 miles11
Holman6.9 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 ChinookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1323084The 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.