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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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Glacier within Whatcom County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Glacier 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.

YearPeople Change
200090
2010211+121 (+134%)
2020300+89 (+42%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

19 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
5 September 1992Natural1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forestnot named
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestKIDNEY
18 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
16 August 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestDEAD BRIDGE
1 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestNOZZLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boulder Creek ProspectCopper, Chromium, IronOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Magnetite, Pyrite
Church Mountain DepositGold, IronOccurrencePlacer
Church Mountain DepositIronOccurrence
Church Mountain DepositsLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
GlacierCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Glacier Sandstone OccurrenceFlagstone, Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Red Bird ProspectCopper, Gold, ZincOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Western QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Glacier MineCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer1951

Every working recorded in Whatcom County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009Thunderstorm WindGlacier-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.

Every storm 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
Warnick2.5 miles17
Maple Falls7.4 miles10
Kendall10.3 miles11
Nooksack Salmon Hatchery10.4 miles11
Kulshan10.8 miles11
Peaceful Valley11.2 miles11
Balford11.3 miles11
Limestone Junction12.1 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 GlacierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1505914The 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.