BlockBefore

College Place, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Walla Walla-College Place census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99362. It stands on Bryant Creek. The Survey maps it on the College Place quadrangle. 9,902 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

College Place within Walla Walla County

On record in College Place

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

College Place grew from 8,765 to 9,902 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
20108,765
20209,902+1,137 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of College Place in 1997, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 July 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.3 acresWhitman Mission National Historic SiteEDGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walla Walla County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of College Place: 11 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Walla Walla PitClayPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dell Avenue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jones-Scott CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mill Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walla Walla County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names College Place in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindCollege Place$1,000High wind blew down a tree onto a fence and street.
April 2003LightningCollege Place$1,000Lightning associated with a thunderstorm ignited a barn fire.
April 2003HailCollege Place-In addition, 0.5 inch diameter hail fell three miles north of Walla Walla, and accumulated to 1.5 inches.

Every storm recorded in Walla Walla 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
Garrett0.8 miles11
Mojonnier2.5 miles11
Walla Walla2.6 miles12
Langdon3.0 miles12
Pedigo3.4 miles11
Stateline3.6 miles11
Baker-Langdon3.8 miles12
Waiilatpo (historical)4.0 miles11

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 College PlaceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516159The 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 1512107. 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.