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Everson, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Sumas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98247. The Survey maps it on the Sumas quadrangle. 2,888 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Everson within Whatcom County

Population over time

2 figures

Everson grew from 2,481 to 2,888 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
20102,481
20202,888+407 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Everson between 1992 and 2019, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBADGER ROAD
7 August 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBAR 2
20 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGOODWIN
10 August 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 Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Everson: 13 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Gold, Iron. 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
Hampton PitClayPast Producer
Smith ProspectManganese, VanadiumOccurrenceUnknown
Sumas Mountain Iron DepositIron, Chromium, NickelOccurrence1915
Sumas Mountain Olivine DepositMagnesiteOccurrence
Vogel Farm DepositDiatomiteOccurrence
Nooksack ChromiumChromiumProspect
Nooksack MineGoldPast Producer1898, 1903, 1908
Nooksack MineGoldProspect
Nooksack ProspectChromiumOccurrenceVein
SmithManganeseUnknown1956

Every working recorded in Whatcom 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
Strandell1.0 miles17
Nooksack1.2 miles17
Hampton1.5 miles17
Clearbrook4.2 miles17
Goshen4.5 miles16
Northwood4.6 miles15
Lawrence5.0 miles16
Greenwood5.3 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 EversonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1502658The 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 1504794. 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.