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East Port Orchard, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Port Orchard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98366. It stands on Blackjack Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bremerton East quadrangle. 5,262 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 295 feet above sea level.

East Port Orchard within Kitsap County

Population over time

3 figures

East Port Orchard grew from 5,116 to 5,262 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
20005,116
20105,919+803 (+16%)
20205,262-657 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of East Port Orchard between 1994 and 2018, burning about 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
3 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSUNNY SLOPE
29 August 2002Smoking2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 August 1994Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 July 2005Fireworks1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSHERWOOD
24 July 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPACE BLANKET
18 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.3 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWERNER RD
22 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOSKINS HILL
15 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVICTORY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kitsap County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of East Port Orchard: 19 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. 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
Kitsap QuarryStoneProducer
HarperClayPast Producer
Port OrchardClayPast Producer
Bourn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Charleston QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Olsen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pioneer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Waterman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wilson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kitsap 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
Parkwood1.0 miles13
Conifer Park1.2 miles13
Port Orchard1.3 miles14
Orchard Heights1.4 miles13
Annapolis1.7 miles13
Retsil1.7 miles13
Fernwood1.9 miles14
Bethel2.1 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 East Port OrchardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1503774The 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 1531447. 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.