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Eatonville, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Eatonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98328. It stands on Little Mashel River. The Survey maps it on the Eatonville quadrangle. 2,845 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

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Eatonville within Pierce County

On record in Eatonville

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

2 figures

Eatonville grew from 2,758 to 2,845 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
20102,758
20202,845+87 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Eatonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPACKWOOD
9 September 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSCOTT
9 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2018Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters58TH AVE CT E
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPRINGWATER EAST
4 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Eatonville: 14 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Copper. 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
Clay City PitsClayPast Producer
La GrandeFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
MashelCopperPast Producer
Siegmund RanchSilicaOccurrence
Enterprise Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lynch Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Eatonville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pack Forest PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eatonville in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 tornado. 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
April 2014Tornado (EF0)Eatonville$5,000The tornado destroyed a carport at one house. The trestles were also cracked inside of the garage. A utility pole was bent back (leaning) which was being supported by a digger. The garbage can was found in the trees; the trees were damaged. Several shingles were ripped from roofs. A road sign and several more trees were also damaged nearby. At the local Eagle's Club, siding was peeled back on one corner with branches strewn across the property. Estimated peak wind speeds of 75 mph.

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Eatonville Junction0.9 miles18
La Grande3.6 miles19
Ohop Bob3.8 miles19
New Reliance3.9 miles19
Clay City4.1 miles18
Surprise Valley4.7 miles15
Alder4.8 miles19
Reliance6.5 miles19

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 EatonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515430The 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 1519161. 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.