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Cle Elum, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Cle Elum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98922. It stands on Crystal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cle Elum quadrangle. 2,157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,909 feet above sea level.

Cle Elum within Kittitas County

On record in Cle Elum

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

2 figures

Cle Elum grew from 1,872 to 2,157 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
20101,872
20202,157+285 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Cle Elum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 171 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 2 were 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 ceremony37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Debris and open burning20
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking5
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBUFFALO SPRINGS
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWINCHESTER
8 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestSHARON OSBORN
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLANIGAN POWERLINE
7 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1993Fireworks1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBULL FROG WOODCHIP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Cle Elum: 15 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Gold. 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
Cle Elum PlacerGoldProspect
Cle Elum Sand and GravelClayProducer
DurrwachterIron, GarnetProspect
DenneyManganeseProspect
Denny Assigned To PittsburgManganeseProspect
Jonesville No. 2 Mine DumpStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Roslyn-Cascade Mine DumpStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kittitas County

Storms near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cle Elum in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2009: 2 wildfire, 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2009Heavy RainCle Elum-Rainfall of 1.5 to 2 inches accompanied by small hail fell within 1 hour.
March 2007FloodCle Elum-Elk Meadows subdivision near Interstate 90 northwest of Cle Elum had water 1 foot deep over roads on March 12-13.
November 2006FloodCle Elum-The Elk Meadows Subdivision, 6 miles northwest of Cle Elem had water overspread the area on November 6th with the Yakima River rising about 2 feet. The water continued to rise with the roads covered by the morning of the 7th. The water receded back into the river on the 9th.
September 2003WildfireCle Elum-The Crystal Creek Fire was a lightning sparked fire which burned 1,584 acres. The fire became completely contained on October 14th.
October 2003WildfireCle Elum-The Crystal Creek Fire burned 1,584 acres. The fire was originally started by lightning on September 24th.
July 2006HailCle Elum-no account filed
July 2006HailCle Elum-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kittitas 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
South Cle Elum0.8 miles16
Roslyn3.5 miles16
Teanaway4.6 miles17
Ronald5.2 miles16
Nelson6.0 miles16
Lakedale7.5 miles17
Bristol8.3 miles17
Driftwood Acres8.9 miles17

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 Cle ElumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1065481The 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 1517819. 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.