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East Wenatchee, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the East Wenatchee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98802. It lies near Sand Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Wenatchee quadrangle. 14,158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

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East Wenatchee within Douglas County

On record in East Wenatchee

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

2 figures

East Wenatchee grew from 13,190 to 14,158 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
201013,190
202014,158+968 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of East Wenatchee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,081 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Firearms and explosives use1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined54 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHORSE LAKE ROAD
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestNUMBER TWO CANYON
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,610 acresSpokane DistrictCRYSTAL
3 August 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National Forestnot named
26 August 2003Fireworks1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTEMILT CREEK
20 August 2004Equipment and vehicle use50 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCANYON VIEW
8 July 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution15,023 acresSpokane DistrictBADGER MT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of East Wenatchee: 27 past producers, 16 occurrences, 7 prospects, 3 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Gold, Silver. 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
(Facility) Wenatchee Aluminum SmelterAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant
Cannon MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Antimony, Lead, ArsenicProducerAcanthite, Boulangerite, Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Hessite, Marcasite, Naumannite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stibnite
LovittGold, Silver, Copper, Antimony, Zinc, Arsenic, LeadPast Producer1885, 1894
Squaw SaddleMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Batterman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dry GulchPerliteOccurrence
Rooster CombPerliteOccurrence
Sampson PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Squaw Saddle No. 1Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Squaw Saddle No. 2Aluminum, Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Wenatchee in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2017: 1 tornado, 1 hail, 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
March 2016FloodEast Wenatchee$2,000Law enforcement reported two residents in the area that reported minor flooding of their property and homes 3 miles east southeast of Wenatchee, Washington. The extend of flooding or damage is unknown at this time of entry.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindEast Wenatchee-A thunderstorm wind gust lofted a glass table top and shattered it near East Wenatchee.
May 2004Tornado (F0)East Wenatchee-no account filed
May 2004HailEast Wenatchee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
East Wenatchee Bench0.9 miles16
Broadway1.9 miles16
Terrace Park2.0 miles16
Sunny Hill2.1 miles16
Patterson (historical)5.2 miles16
Rock Island8.3 miles13
Voltage11.4 miles12
Orondo14.9 miles13

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 WenatcheeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q988279The 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 1519148. 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.