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Deming, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the East Whatcom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98244. It stands on Mitchell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Deming quadrangle. 339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 220 feet above sea level.

Deming within Whatcom County

Population over time

3 figures

Deming grew from 210 to 339 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
2000210
2010353+143 (+68%)
2020339-14 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Deming between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 ceremony15
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Fireworks3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 1995Fireworks50 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePuget Sound AgencyMCKAYCAR
1 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNORTH DYKE TIRE
1 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 August 2008Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNIGHT RIDER
4 August 2005Smokingunder an acrePuget Sound AgencyWEXLA
30 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMARLBORO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Deming: 7 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Graphite, Gold. 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
Anderson Creek Graphite DepositGraphiteOccurrence
Hope PlacerGoldProspect
Deming QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nooksack River SandstoneStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Welcome QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bengen Farms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Loggers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Meuer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nugent's Bridge PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Siper Road Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Whatcom County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deming in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2012: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm 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
November 2006FloodDeming$250,000Record flooding occurred on the Cowlitz, Nooksack, Puyallup, Nisqually, |Skykomish, Stillaguamish, Carbon, Snoqualmie, and Bogachiel. Major flooding occurred on the Tolt, Snohomish, Skokomish, Skagit, and White rivers. Other rivers flooding were the Satsop, Cedar, Wynoochee, Elwha, Deschutes, Dungeness, Skookumchuck, and Chehalis.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindDeming$1,000Damage survey indicated strong thunderstorm wind damage. A number of tree limbs and a few trees blown down. One power line was down near the junction of state route 9 and state route 542 east of Deming.

Every storm recorded in Whatcom 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
Welcome2.8 miles11
Van Zandt2.8 miles11
Nugents Corner4.0 miles16
Kulshan4.2 miles11
Cedarville4.3 miles16
Clipper4.6 miles11
Lawrence4.7 miles16
Nooksack Salmon Hatchery6.3 miles11

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 DemingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1508405The 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 1518670. 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.