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DuPont, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Fort Lewis-DuPont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98327. It lies near Bell Hill. The Survey maps it on the Nisqually quadrangle. 10,112 people lived here at the 2021 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

DuPont within Pierce County

On record in DuPont

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 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

DuPont grew from 2,171 to 10,151 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
20002,171
20108,199+6,028 (+278%)
202010,151+1,952 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of DuPont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 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 ceremony10
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
10 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
9 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 August 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNISQUALLY HILL
3 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNISQUALLY BRIDGE
27 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of DuPont: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. 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
RoyDiatomiteOccurrence
Nisqually PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nisqually PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed 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
Hillside2.8 miles15
Eastward3.4 miles16
Ketron4.0 miles16
Tillicum4.3 miles15
Steilacoom5.3 miles16
American Lake Garden Tract5.4 miles15
Lake City5.6 miles16
Interlaken6.2 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 DuPontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q128112The 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 1513919. 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.