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Elbe, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Eatonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98328. The Survey maps it on the Elbe quadrangle. 39 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.

Elbe within Pierce County

On record in Elbe

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

Elbe grew from 21 to 39 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
200021
201029+8 (+38%)
202039+10 (+34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

84 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Elbe between 1994 and 2020, burning about 446 acres in total. 4 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 ceremony42
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMINERAL HILL
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGOTCHA TRAIL
4 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMINERAL RD
22 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBORDERLINE
16 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 September 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 September 2006Debris and open burningunder 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Elbe: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
LaddMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Ladd MineClayOccurrence
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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 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
Park Junction2.8 miles15
Reliance3.9 miles19
New Reliance5.0 miles19
Alder5.7 miles19
National7.3 miles15
Eatonville8.1 miles19
La Grande8.2 miles19
Ashford8.6 miles15

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 ElbeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1325167The 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 1519220. 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.