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Donald, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Northeast Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98951. The Survey maps it on the Wapato quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Donald within Yakima County

On record in Donald

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Donald grew from 91 to 172 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
201091
2020172+81 (+89%)

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

435 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 435 fires within 5 miles of Donald between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,151 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 56 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
Fireworks145
Debris and open burning110
Missing data/not specified/undetermined88
Arson/incendiarism56
Equipment and vehicle use13
Other causes6
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Firearms and explosives use1
Natural1

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 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama AgencyDONALD WAPATO SWIMMING HOLE
8 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresYakama Agency942 WINAWAY
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency940 WINAWAY
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency361 BUTLER RD.
4 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama Agency170 HORSCHELL RD.
30 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreYakama AgencyDONALD RD.
28 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreYakama AgencyNORTH TRACK
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYakama Agency65750 HWY 97

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Donald: 13 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Kern Pit C-49Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Parker HeightsClayPast Producer
Ashue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Calvert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dunn's Ranch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Union Gap PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Sawyer2.3 miles13
Wapato2.4 miles14
Flint3.4 miles13
Parker4.0 miles14
Yethonat5.0 miles14
Moxee City5.4 miles14
Buena5.5 miles13
Artesian5.7 miles14

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 DonaldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5293908The 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 1512156. 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.