Glacier, Washington
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the East Whatcom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98244. It stands on Gallop Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glacier quadrangle. 300 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 906 feet above sea level.
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On record in Glacier
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Austin Pass Warming Hutlisted 1990
Glacier Ranger Stationlisted 1980
Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Power Plantlisted 1988
Population over time
3 figuresGlacier grew from 90 to 300 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 90 | |
| 2010 | 211 | +121 (+134%) |
| 2020 | 300 | +89 (+42%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Mt Baker quadrangle1:192000
- 1909 USGS Mt. Baker quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1915 USGS Mt. Baker quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1915 USGS Mt. Baker Dist quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Mt. Baker quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Mt. Baker quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Glacier quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Glacier between 1992 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1992 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 26 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | not named |
| 3 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 27 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | KIDNEY |
| 18 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 16 August 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 15 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | DEAD BRIDGE |
| 1 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | NOZZLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Glacier: 9 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boulder Creek Prospect | Copper, Chromium, Iron | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Magnetite, Pyrite | |
| Church Mountain Deposit | Gold, Iron | Occurrence | Placer | |
| Church Mountain Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Church Mountain Deposits | Limestone, General | Occurrence | ||
| Glacier | Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Glacier Sandstone Occurrence | Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Red Bird Prospect | Copper, Gold, Zinc | Occurrence | Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Western Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Glacier Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | 1951 |
Storms near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glacier in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glacier | - | Couple of dozen trees, some very large old growth, were blown down across several areas of the Baker Lake Highway. About 50 cars, were trapped behind until the road was cleared. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warnick | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Maple Falls | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Kendall | 10.3 miles | 11 | |
| Nooksack Salmon Hatchery | 10.4 miles | 11 | |
| Kulshan | 10.8 miles | 11 | |
| Peaceful Valley | 11.2 miles | 11 | |
| Balford | 11.3 miles | 11 | |
| Limestone Junction | 12.1 miles | 11 |
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 Glacier | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1505914 | The 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 1519971. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.









