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Conway, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Conway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98238. It stands on South Fork Skagit River. The Survey maps it on the Conway quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Conway within Skagit County

Population over time

3 figures

Conway grew from 84 to 87 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
200084
201091+7 (+8%)
202087-4 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Conway between 1992 and 2019, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning6
Fireworks4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
19 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTARGATE
14 August 2003Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 August 2009Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTOOTH
10 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSINNES RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Conway: 10 producers, 9 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel, Gold, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cornelius Magnesite,Nickel-Gold DepMagnesite, Nickel, GoldProspect
Mount VernonNickel, Gold, ChromiumOccurrence1915
Mount VernonChromium, Nickel, GoldOccurrence
Mount VernonNickel, Gold, MagnesiteOccurrence
Mount Vernon DepositNickel, Gold, Silver, ChromiumProspect1936
QuarryStoneUnknown
Wind RiverGemstoneProducer
Mount VernonStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Nordlund Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pacific QuarriesStone, DimensionProducer

Every working 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
Cedardale1.7 miles19
Milltown2.2 miles19
Skagit City3.2 miles21
Rexville4.7 miles18
Mount Vernon5.6 miles21
McMurray5.9 miles15
Lake McMurray6.2 miles15
Big Lake6.9 miles16

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 ConwayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1509392The 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 1512112. 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.