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Fobes Hill, Washington

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Snohomish census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98290. The Survey maps it on the Snohomish quadrangle. 2,628 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 203 feet above sea level.

Fobes Hill within Snohomish County

Population over time

2 figures

Fobes Hill grew from 2,418 to 2,628 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
20102,418
20202,628+210 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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 Fobes Hill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKAPOWSIN SWAMP
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters93RD DRIVE
17 September 1998Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 September 2017Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPENCER ISLAND
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 August 1994Smoking3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 July 2014Fireworks16 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSKIPLEY BOG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Fobes Hill: 21 past producers, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, Dimension, 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
(Facility) Everett Smelter Slag DumpIron, SilicaPlant
Twitchell QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Associated Sand and Gravel Co IncLimestone, DimensionProducer
Snohomish Sand and Gravel IncLimestone, DimensionProducer
Clayburn PitClayProducer
Everett Brick YardClayPast Producer
LowellClayPast Producer
Lowell Brick CoClayPast Producer
N EverettClayPast Producer
Ne EverettClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish 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
Cavalero Corner2.2 miles25
Snohomish2.7 miles26
West Lake Stevens3.2 miles26
South Snohomish3.5 miles26
Bromart3.6 miles26
Lowell4.1 miles25
Larimers Corner4.2 miles25
Machias4.5 miles26

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 Fobes HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475108The 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 1513114. 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.