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East Renton Highlands, Washington

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Seattle East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98059. The Survey maps it on the Maple Valley quadrangle. 11,937 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 525 feet above sea level.

East Renton Highlands within King County

Population over time

5 figures

East Renton Highlands fell from 12,033 to 11,937 between 1980 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
198012,033
199013,218+1,185 (+10%)
200013,264+46 (+0%)
201011,140-2,124 (-16%)
202011,937+797 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of East Renton Highlands between 1993 and 2008, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSQUAK MOUNTAIN
10 September 1993Smoking2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 July 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSQAUK STUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of East Renton Highlands: 26 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, 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
Harris Clay MineFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Harris PitClayPast Producer
Section 31 PitClayPast Producer
Cedar Mountain PropertyStone, Crushed/Broken, SilicaProspect
Cedar Mountain PropertyStone, Crushed/Broken, SilicaProspect
Sunset QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
55 Sand DepositSilicaPast Producer
CavanaughSilicaPast Producer
Renton Junction ASilicaPast Producer
Renton MineSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
Coalfield1.3 miles23
Elliott2.0 miles23
Maplewood Heights2.0 miles23
High Valley2.3 miles22
Maple Valley Heights2.5 miles22
Maple Hills2.7 miles22
Maplewood2.9 miles23
Cedar Mountain3.3 miles22

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 Renton HighlandsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1508714The 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 1867606. 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.