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Clear Lake, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Clear Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98235. It lies near Skagit Valley. The Survey maps it on the Sedro-Woolley South quadrangle. 1,228 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Clear Lake within Skagit County

Population over time

3 figures

Clear Lake grew from 942 to 1,228 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
2000942
20101,002+60 (+6%)
20201,228+226 (+23%)

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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Clear Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony13
Fireworks9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Natural1

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 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 September 2012Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDUKES HILL
14 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTHE SKIPPER TOO
12 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJANICKI ROAD GYPSY
8 August 1993Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 August 1998Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Clear Lake: 19 unknowns, 13 occurrences, 12 producers, 10 past producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Big LakeGraphite, ChromiumOccurrence
BurlingtonAsbestosPast Producer
BurlingtonStoneOccurrence
Clear Lake MillTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
James StevensGemstoneOccurrence
Nookachamp CreekDiatomiteOccurrence
TilonClayPast Producer
Nookachamps CreekArsenicOccurrence
Nookachamps CreekArsenicOccurrence
Bar Sand and Gravel, Inc.Stone, DimensionUnknown

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
Baker Heights2.2 miles21
Sedro-Woolley2.7 miles12
Sterling3.1 miles21
Big Lake4.3 miles16
Burlington4.9 miles21
Cokedale5.2 miles12
Chuckanut Junction5.6 miles21
Montborne5.8 miles16

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 Clear LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515610The 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 1512096. 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.