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.
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
Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Churchlisted 1976
Population over time
3 figuresElbe 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 21 | |
| 2010 | 29 | +8 (+38%) |
| 2020 | 39 | +10 (+34%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1937 USGS Eatonville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Kapowsin quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Hoquiam quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Elbe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
84 since 1994Regional 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 ceremony | 42 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MINERAL HILL |
| 5 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | GOTCHA TRAIL |
| 4 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MINERAL RD |
| 22 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BORDERLINE |
| 16 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 14 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 12 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 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
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ladd | Mercury | Occurrence | Cinnabar | |
| Ladd Mine | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park Junction | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Reliance | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| New Reliance | 5.0 miles | 19 | |
| Alder | 5.7 miles | 19 | |
| National | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| Eatonville | 8.1 miles | 19 | |
| La Grande | 8.2 miles | 19 | |
| Ashford | 8.6 miles | 15 |
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 Elbe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1325167 | 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 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.







