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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.

Cowiche within Yakima County

Population over time

2 figures

Cowiche 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.

YearPeople Change
2010428
2020535+107 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

13 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined6
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
31 August 2002Recreation and ceremony120 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
31 August 2002Recreation and ceremony15 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWEBERT
22 August 2013Natural4.5 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestBEAR
8 July 1999Equipment and vehicle use80 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 July 2019Natural15 acresSpokane DistrictROCKY TOP
18 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5,834 acresSpokane DistrictCOWICHE MILL
10 July 2002Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Naches RiverGraphiteOccurrence
Unnamed PitStonePast Producer
Stephens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Summit View QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clarke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
S. Naches PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yakima County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Strong WindCowiche-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.

Every storm recorded in Yakima 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
Holtzinger0.7 miles14
Tasker2.4 miles14
Tieton3.2 miles14
Weikel3.5 miles14
Naches4.3 miles14
Eschbach4.3 miles14
Tietonview Grange5.3 miles15
Gleed5.3 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 CowicheAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473843The 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.