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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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
Baker River Bridgelisted 1976- Lower Baker River Hydroelectric Power Plantlisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresConcrete 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 705 | |
| 2020 | 801 | +96 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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.
- 1909 USGS Mt Baker quadrangle1:192000
- 1909 USGS Mt. Baker quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1915 USGS Mt. Baker quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1915 USGS Mt. Baker Dist quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Lake Shannon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Mt. Baker quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Lake Shannon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
41 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | 21 |
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 20 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | FINNEY CUMBERLAND |
| 20 September 1998 | Other causes | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 1 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.8 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LOWER FINNEY |
| 25 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | not named |
| 23 August 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clendenen Point Iron Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Concrete | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Lone Star Cement Corp. | Limestone, General, Clay | Producer | ||
| Sawmill | Palladium | Unknown | ||
| Sweden | Copper, Zinc, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Concrete | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Jackman Creek | Limestone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Sauk | Limestone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Three Mile Creek | Limestone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Webber | Limestone, Dimension | Unknown |
Storms near this place
3 since 2006Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2006 | Flood | Concrete | $1,600,000 | Record 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 2010 | Flood | Concrete | $300,000 | There was some damage along the Skagit river. |
| November 2014 | Debris Flow | Concrete | $40,000 | A portion of State Route 20 collapsed this morning near mile marker 90 in Concrete. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grassmere | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| Van Horn | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Nestos (historical) | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Birdsview | 6.9 miles | 17 | |
| Sauk | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Rockport | 8.7 miles | 13 | |
| Hamilton | 12.9 miles | 17 | |
| Hamilton Junction | 13.8 miles | 12 |
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 Concrete | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q919672 | 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 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.









