Easton, Washington
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Manastash Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98925. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Easton quadrangle. 407 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,169 feet above sea level.
On record in Easton
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 1 record
Cabin Creek Historic Districtlisted 1979
Population over time
3 figuresEaston grew from 383 to 407 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 383 | |
| 2010 | 478 | +95 (+25%) |
| 2020 | 407 | -71 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1901 USGS Snoqualmie Pass quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Snoqualmie quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Easton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Snoqualmie Pass quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Easton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
82 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Easton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 845 acres in total. 9 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 ceremony | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Southeast Region-Department of Natural Resources | WALNUT LANE |
| 4 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 24 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 22 September 1995 | Other causes | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 2 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | TUCKER CREEK |
| 15 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | KACHESS LAKE |
| 14 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | WINDBREAK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Easton: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials, Quartz, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easton Tunnel | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Lake Cle Elum | Quartz | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Volcanic Materials | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cresto Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| East Nelson Siding Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Easton in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2013: 2 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2009 | Flood | Easton | $10,000,000 | Heavy rain on deep snow caused moderate flooding with damage in Elk Meadows subdivision, Cle Elum, Roslyn, and the west portion of Ellensburg. Roads were flooded and buckled in many areas. |
| January 2011 | Flood | Easton | $2,150,000 | In addition to the high water on the Yakima River, numerous small streams and creeks in the west part of the county flooded with roads covered with water in housing developments along Interstate 90 west of Cle Elum and in the northern and western sections of Ellensburg. Forty homes, 64 roads and 3 commercial properties were impacted. Most of the home impacted were surrounded by water with residents cut off from the property by water covered roads. Damage to roads and public works in Kittitas County is estimated at 1.5 million dollars with residential and business damage near 650,000 dollars. |
| November 2006 | Heavy Rain | Easton | - | The Easton Cooperative Observer reported a 24 hour record rainfall amount of 10.46 inches. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Easton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cabin Creek | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Pine Glen | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Lavender | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Driftwood Acres | 6.1 miles | 17 | |
| Lakedale | 6.6 miles | 17 | |
| Nelson | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Kachess Resort | 7.7 miles | 16 | |
| Martin | 8.0 miles | 16 |
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 Easton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1514945 | 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 1519151. 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.





