Copalis Beach, Washington
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Ocean Shores census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98535. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Copalis Beach quadrangle. 447 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresCopalis Beach fell from 489 to 447 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 | 489 | |
| 2010 | 415 | -74 (-15%) |
| 2020 | 447 | +32 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1938 USGS Moclips quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Moclips quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
32 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Copalis Beach between 1992 and 2019, burning about 87 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 23 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 14 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 31 August 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | GRUMPY STUMP |
| 29 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 23 August 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 19 August 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 18 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HIGHWAY 109 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean City | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Iron Springs | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Carlisle East | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Carlisle West | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Sampson | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Ocean Grove | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Carlisle | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Onslow | 5.1 miles | 13 |
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 Copalis Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1502968 | 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 1530849. 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.







