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Garrett, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Walla Walla-College Place census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99362. The Survey maps it on the College Place quadrangle. 1,771 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 768 feet above sea level.

Garrett within Walla Walla County

Population over time

3 figures

Garrett grew from 1,022 to 1,771 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
20001,022
20101,419+397 (+39%)
20201,771+352 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Garrett in 1997, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 July 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.3 acresWhitman Mission National Historic SiteEDGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walla Walla County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Garrett: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Walla Walla PitClayPast Producer
Dell Avenue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jones-Scott CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mill Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wilson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walla Walla 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
College Place0.8 miles11
Mojonnier2.1 miles11
Pedigo2.7 miles11
Waiilatpo (historical)3.2 miles11
Walla Walla3.3 miles12
Stateline3.6 miles11
Langdon3.8 miles12
Calhounville3.9 miles11

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 GarrettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1503935The 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 1512234. 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.