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Dash Point, Washington

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Tacoma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98422. It lies near Indian Hill. The Survey maps it on the Tacoma North quadrangle. 963 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Dash Point within Pierce County

Population over time

2 figures

Dash Point grew from 931 to 963 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
2010931
2020963+32 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Dash Point in 2001, burning about 40 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
17 August 2001Recreation and ceremony40 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Dash Point: 7 past producers, 2 plants, 2 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Nickel, Arsenic, Aluminum, Contained or Metal. 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
(Facility) Asarco RefineryCopper, Nickel, ArsenicPlant
Tacoma Reduction PlantAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant1943
Christel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hylebus PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maury Island PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maury Island PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maury Island PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pohl Pit - Div. 10Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sound Refining PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Caledonia0.7 miles24
Browns Point1.5 miles24
Old Tacoma3.7 miles24
Cebalop (historical)4.0 miles24
Northeast Tacoma4.0 miles24
Ruston4.5 miles15
Tacoma4.7 miles24
Fort Nisqually5.5 miles15

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 Dash PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474261The 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 1512137. 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.