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Concrete, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the East Skagit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98237. It lies near Burpee Hill. The Survey maps it on the Lake Shannon quadrangle. 801 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

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Concrete within Skagit County

On record in Concrete

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

Concrete grew from 705 to 801 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
2010705
2020801+96 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Concrete between 1992 and 2020, burning about 178 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning9
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes3
Fireworks1
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
5 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest21
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFINNEY CUMBERLAND
20 September 1998Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined44 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.8 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLOWER FINNEY
25 August 1992Naturalunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forestnot named
23 August 1997Arson/incendiarismunder 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 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Concrete: 8 unknowns, 6 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General, 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
Clendenen Point Iron DepositIronOccurrence
ConcreteStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Lone Star Cement Corp.Limestone, General, ClayProducer
SawmillPalladiumUnknown
SwedenCopper, Zinc, Silver, GoldPast Producer
ConcreteLimestone, GeneralProducer
Jackman CreekLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
SaukLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Three Mile CreekLimestone, DimensionUnknown
WebberLimestone, DimensionUnknown

Every working recorded in Skagit County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concrete in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 2 flood, 1 debris flow. 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
November 2006FloodConcrete$1,600,000Record flooding occurred on the Cowlitz, Nooksack, Puyallup, Nisqually, |Skykomish, Stillaguamish, Carbon, Snoqualmie, and Bogachiel. Major flooding occurred on the Tolt, Snohomish, Skokomish, Skagit, and White rivers. Other rivers flooding were the Satsop, Cedar, Wynoochee, Elwha, Deschutes, Dungeness, Skookumchuck, and Chehalis.
December 2010FloodConcrete$300,000There was some damage along the Skagit river.
November 2014Debris FlowConcrete$40,000A portion of State Route 20 collapsed this morning near mile marker 90 in Concrete.

Every storm 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
Grassmere1.8 miles17
Van Horn2.7 miles15
Nestos (historical)3.4 miles15
Birdsview6.9 miles17
Sauk7.7 miles14
Rockport8.7 miles13
Hamilton12.9 miles17
Hamilton Junction13.8 miles12

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 ConcreteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q919672The 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 1518004. 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.