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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.

Edison within Skagit County

Population over time

3 figures

Edison 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.

YearPeople Change
2000133
20101330 (0%)
2020240+107 (+80%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

47 since 1993

Regional 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 ceremony22
Debris and open burning7
Fireworks5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1

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 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLILY LAKE
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOYSTER CK
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHANG GLIDER
2 September 1995Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBAYVIEW
9 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use7.7 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBOW HILL
9 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BellevilleManganeseProspect1940
Belleville PropertyManganeseOccurrencePyrolusite
Samish BayManganeseOccurrenceReplacement
Samish BayManganeseOccurrence
Burlington Northern IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Curry-Eerks-JohnsonSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dept. of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nordlund Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R.E. Peterson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
RogersSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
Edison Station1.2 miles14
Sunset2.3 miles14
Bow2.4 miles14
Equality2.6 miles14
Blanchard2.6 miles14
Leary4.1 miles14
Allen4.7 miles14
Atlanta (historical)4.8 miles12

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 EdisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515937The 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.