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Clayton, Washington

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Loon Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99110. The Survey maps it on the Clayton quadrangle. 420 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,254 feet above sea level.

Clayton within Stevens County

On record in Clayton

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Clayton fell from 443 to 420 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
2010443
2020420-23 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Clayton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 16 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
Debris and open burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Natural16
Recreation and ceremony9
Fireworks8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSUNSET BAY
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWALLBRIDGE RUCKUS
4 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersENOCH TWO
4 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters930
4 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 September 2003Recreation and ceremony51 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBELLSTAR
18 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPRING CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stevens 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 Clayton: 8 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Cleveland QuarryStonePast Producer
ConnerSilicaUnknown
Deer ParkAluminumOccurrence
Jansen Iron ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Conner PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Olson PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
A. B. PitClayProducer
CarpenterClayProducer

Every working recorded in Stevens County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clayton in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 dust devil, 1 flood. 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
March 2017FloodClayton$1,600,000Periods of heavy rain and snow melt produces numerous road closures due to flooding and debris flows in Stevens County through the second half of March. Extensive flooding of fields near the Colville River occurred. The fire station at Hunters was closed due to flooding. Near Northport a lane of flooded road collapsed under a driver, who escaped unharmed. The most notable road closure was Highway 395 near Colville which is a major route through the county. This road remained closed through the end of the month with extensive repairs needed which could not be started until soil conditions dried out.||Stevens county was included in a Washington State State of Emergency declaration as a result of the damage caused by this episode.
May 2011Dust DevilClayton$3,000A resident located southwest of Clayton, WA sustained minor damage to her trailer when a strong dust devil moved across her property. The dust devil ripped siding off of both sides of her trailer. The siding landed in her neighbors horse pasture. It also picked up her trampoline and threw it several feet. There were no injuries. Damage costs were estimated.
June 2004HailClayton-A thunderstorm produced 1/2 inch hail with isolated 3/4 inch diameter hailstones near the town of Clayton, Washington.

Every storm recorded in Stevens 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
Loon Lake6.0 miles10
Tumtum9.8 miles8
Springdale10.6 miles10
Cline11.2 miles10
Suncrest12.6 miles9
Grays12.7 miles10
Kulzer13.8 miles11
Ford14.5 miles10

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 ClaytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5130160The 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 1504000. 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.