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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.

Easton within Kittitas County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Easton 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.

YearPeople Change
2000383
2010478+95 (+25%)
2020407-71 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

82 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural9
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresSoutheast Region-Department of Natural ResourcesWALNUT LANE
4 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 1995Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTUCKER CREEK
15 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestKACHESS LAKE
14 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestWINDBREAK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Easton TunnelSilicaOccurrence
Lake Cle ElumQuartzOccurrence
Unnamed QuarryVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cresto PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East Nelson Siding PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kittitas County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2009FloodEaston$10,000,000Heavy 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 2011FloodEaston$2,150,000In 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 2006Heavy RainEaston-The Easton Cooperative Observer reported a 24 hour record rainfall amount of 10.46 inches.
August 2013HailEaston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kittitas 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
Cabin Creek2.8 miles15
Pine Glen2.8 miles15
Lavender4.2 miles16
Driftwood Acres6.1 miles17
Lakedale6.6 miles17
Nelson7.3 miles16
Kachess Resort7.7 miles16
Martin8.0 miles16

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 EastonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1514945The 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.