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Fern Prairie, Washington

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Camas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98607. It lies near Brunner Hill. The Survey maps it on the Lacamas Creek quadrangle. 2,061 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Fern Prairie within Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Fern Prairie grew from 1,884 to 2,061 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
20101,884
20202,061+177 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Fern Prairie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning21
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters243RD AVE
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters232ND AVE
4 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTOREDAHL
30 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2017Debris and open burning4.9 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters91ST STREET
23 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters86YH ST.
2 September 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 Clark 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 Fern Prairie: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Camas PlacerTitanium, Iron, GoldUnknown
Red Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
SmithMercuryOccurrence
WashingtonGoldUnknown
Haag & Shaw PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hanna FarmClayProspect
ImageClayPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Washougal PitIronProducer
Washougal ProspectIronOccurrenceMagnetite

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Sunnyside1.5 miles21
Ireland2.1 miles21
Camas3.4 miles24
Oak Park3.8 miles24
Parker Landing Light4.1 miles24
Parkersville4.1 miles24
Livingston4.4 miles23
Washougal4.4 miles24

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 Fern PrairieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5859071The 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 1519499. 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.