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Clinton, Washington

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Whidbey Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98236. The Survey maps it on the Mukilteo quadrangle. 956 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 128 feet above sea level.

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Clinton within Island County

Population over time

3 figures

Clinton grew from 868 to 956 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
2000868
2010928+60 (+7%)
2020956+28 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Clinton between 1992 and 2016, burning about 18 acres in total. 2 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 ceremony7
Debris and open burning5
Smoking2
Natural2
Fireworks1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
9 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1994Other causes2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLABYRINTH
17 September 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
10 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 1992Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH BEACH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Island County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clinton: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. 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
Useless BayDiatomiteOccurrence
Gedney Hat Island PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Veit Asphalt Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Island County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clinton in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2014: 2 debris flow, 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
December 2014Debris FlowClinton$250,000A house along the private sidewalk Brighton Boardwalk in Clinton was destroyed by a Sunday afternoon mudslide. The house next door was also damaged.
January 2013Debris FlowClinton$250,000Neighbors are cleaning up after a Wednesday afternoon landslide destroyed a home and damaged others on Whidbey Island. The house that took the brunt of the force was turned almost sideways and is now just inches away from falling into Puget Sound. Nobody was hurt in the 100-yard slide, but a lot of damage was done to several summer homes.
December 2007Heavy RainClinton$20,000A private school in Clinton was flooded by over an inch of water.

Every storm recorded in Island 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
Columbia Beach0.6 miles25
Glendale2.7 miles25
Midvale Corner3.4 miles25
Possession4.3 miles25
Langley5.0 miles14
Maxwelton5.5 miles25
Bay View5.9 miles14
Pebble Beach6.3 miles14

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 ClintonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515068The 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 1512098. 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.