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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Population over time
3 figuresClinton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 868 | |
| 2010 | 928 | +60 (+7%) |
| 2020 | 956 | +28 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1895 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1897 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Edmonds quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Edmonds quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Mukilteo quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 1994 | Other causes | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LABYRINTH |
| 17 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 10 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 28 August 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 27 August 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SOUTH BEACH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Useless Bay | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Gedney Hat Island Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Veit Asphalt Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2014 | Debris Flow | Clinton | $250,000 | A house along the private sidewalk Brighton Boardwalk in Clinton was destroyed by a Sunday afternoon mudslide. The house next door was also damaged. |
| January 2013 | Debris Flow | Clinton | $250,000 | Neighbors 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 2007 | Heavy Rain | Clinton | $20,000 | A private school in Clinton was flooded by over an inch of water. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia Beach | 0.6 miles | 25 | |
| Glendale | 2.7 miles | 25 | |
| Midvale Corner | 3.4 miles | 25 | |
| Possession | 4.3 miles | 25 | |
| Langley | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Maxwelton | 5.5 miles | 25 | |
| Bay View | 5.9 miles | 14 | |
| Pebble Beach | 6.3 miles | 14 |
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 Clinton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1515068 | The 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.









