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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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
Badger Mountain Lookoutlisted 1990
Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Sitelisted 1972
Population over time
2 figuresEast 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 13,190 | |
| 2020 | 14,158 | +968 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1913 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1920 USGS Colockum Pass quadrangle1:125000
- 1922 USGS Colockum Pass quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1975 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:100000
- 2003 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
20 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 54 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HORSE LAKE ROAD |
| 4 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | NUMBER TWO CANYON |
| 1 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,610 acres | Spokane District | CRYSTAL |
| 3 August 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | not named |
| 26 August 2003 | Fireworks | 1.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 22 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | STEMILT CREEK |
| 20 August 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CANYON VIEW |
| 8 July 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 15,023 acres | Spokane District | BADGER MT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 56 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Wenatchee Aluminum Smelter | Aluminum, Contained or Metal | Plant | ||
| Cannon Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper, Antimony, Lead, Arsenic | Producer | Acanthite, Boulangerite, Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Hessite, Marcasite, Naumannite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stibnite | |
| Lovitt | Gold, Silver, Copper, Antimony, Zinc, Arsenic, Lead | Past Producer | 1885, 1894 | |
| Squaw Saddle | Mercury | Occurrence | Cinnabar | |
| Batterman Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dry Gulch | Perlite | Occurrence | ||
| Rooster Comb | Perlite | Occurrence | ||
| Sampson Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Squaw Saddle No. 1 | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | ||
| Squaw Saddle No. 2 | Aluminum, Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
4 since 2004Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2016 | Flood | East Wenatchee | $2,000 | Law 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Wenatchee | - | A thunderstorm wind gust lofted a glass table top and shattered it near East Wenatchee. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | East Wenatchee | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | East Wenatchee | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Wenatchee Bench | 0.9 miles | 16 | |
| Broadway | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Terrace Park | 2.0 miles | 16 | |
| Sunny Hill | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| Patterson (historical) | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Rock Island | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Voltage | 11.4 miles | 12 | |
| Orondo | 14.9 miles | 13 |
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 Wenatchee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q988279 | The 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.







