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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.

Copalis Beach within Grays Harbor County

Population over time

3 figures

Copalis 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.

YearPeople Change
2000489
2010415-74 (-15%)
2020447+32 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

32 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Fireworks3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 1997Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
31 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGRUMPY STUMP
29 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 August 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHIGHWAY 109

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Ocean City2.9 miles14
Iron Springs3.3 miles13
Carlisle East4.4 miles13
Carlisle West4.4 miles13
Sampson4.9 miles14
Ocean Grove4.9 miles13
Carlisle4.9 miles13
Onslow5.1 miles13

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 BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1502968The 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.