Cowiche, Washington
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98923. The Survey maps it on the Naches quadrangle. 535 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresCowiche grew from 428 to 535 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 | 428 | |
| 2020 | 535 | +107 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1899 USGS Ellensburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Ellensburg quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Naches quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
13 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Cowiche between 1999 and 2020, burning about 6,514 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 120 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 31 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WEBERT |
| 22 August 2013 | Natural | 4.5 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | BEAR |
| 8 July 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 80 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 23 July 2019 | Natural | 15 acres | Spokane District | ROCKY TOP |
| 18 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,834 acres | Spokane District | COWICHE MILL |
| 10 July 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Cowiche: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Graphite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naches River | Graphite | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Stephens Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Summit View Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Clarke Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| S. Naches Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cowiche in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 strong wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Strong Wind | Cowiche | - | Strong winds gusting from 20 to 35 mph caused scattered power outages and brush fires in and around Yakima during the afternoon and evening. Wind blown branches hit power lines causing power failures in Moxee, Union Gap, and Yakima. In Moxee, 500 residents lost power for around 90 minutes. A wind driven brush fire burned for around three hours during the evening around the 13000 block of Douglas Road in Yakima. Power fluctuations also occurred in the Union Gap area until 9 o'clock in the evening. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holtzinger | 0.7 miles | 14 | |
| Tasker | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Tieton | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Weikel | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Naches | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Eschbach | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Tietonview Grange | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Gleed | 5.3 miles | 16 |
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 Cowiche | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3473843 | 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 1512121. 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.





