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Geneva, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Bellingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98229. The Survey maps it on the Bellingham South quadrangle. 2,652 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 446 feet above sea level.

Geneva within Whatcom County

Population over time

3 figures

Geneva grew from 2,257 to 2,652 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
20002,257
20102,321+64 (+3%)
20202,652+331 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

65 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Geneva between 1993 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 7 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 ceremony16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Fireworks8
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural3
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCALIFORNIA STREET MAPLE
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBLACKBERRY YARD
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMORNING BEACH
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Geneva: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite, Bentonite. 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
Lookout Mountain Bentonite DepositBentoniteOccurrence
Olivine MillMagnesitePast Producer
Griffin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Larson Mill1.0 miles17
Silver Beach1.6 miles17
Forest Ridge2.0 miles17
Lakeway2.4 miles14
Alabama Hill2.4 miles17
Agate Bay2.6 miles16
Roosevelt2.8 miles17
Eureka2.9 miles17

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 GenevaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q580628The 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 1512236. 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.