Edison, Washington
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Bow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98232. It stands on Edison Slough. The Survey maps it on the Bow quadrangle. 240 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresEdison grew from 133 to 240 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 | 133 | |
| 2010 | 133 | 0 (0%) |
| 2020 | 240 | +107 (+80%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1918 USGS Samish Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Bow quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Samish Lake quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Bellingham quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Bow quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
47 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Edison between 1993 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. None 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 | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LILY LAKE |
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | OYSTER CK |
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HANG GLIDER |
| 2 September 1995 | Other causes | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 13 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BAYVIEW |
| 9 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.7 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BOW HILL |
| 9 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Edison: 6 producers, 4 unknowns, 3 past producers, 3 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belleville | Manganese | Prospect | 1940 | |
| Belleville Property | Manganese | Occurrence | Pyrolusite | |
| Samish Bay | Manganese | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Samish Bay | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Burlington Northern Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Curry-Eerks-Johnson | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Dept. of Highways | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Nordlund Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| R.E. Peterson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rogers | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edison Station | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Sunset | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Bow | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Equality | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Blanchard | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Leary | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Allen | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Atlanta (historical) | 4.8 miles | 12 |
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 Edison | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1515937 | 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 1519188. 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.





