Glenwood, Washington
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1970. It stands in the Yakama Nation Reservation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98619. The Survey maps it on the Glenwood quadrangle. 179 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,900 feet above sea level.
On record in Glenwood
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 1 record
Whitcomb Cabinlisted 1975
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1904 USGS Mount Adams quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1907 USGS Mount Adams quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Yakima quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Glenwood quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
89 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Glenwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 25 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge | ASPEN |
| 3 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | TOWER 2 |
| 2 September 1996 | Fireworks | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 9 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CONBOY |
| 8 August 2006 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge | CONBOY |
| 6 August 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 August 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Glenwood: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Quarry Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenwood in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2011 | Flood | Glenwood | - | Only minor flooding observed. The Klickitat River gauge at Pitt crested at 10.26, which was 1.26 feet above normal. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Glenwood | - | A thunderstorm in Glenwood produced 3/4 inch hail and heavy rain. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laurel | 7.0 miles | 14 | |
| Trout Lake | 12.7 miles | 15 | |
| Snowden | 13.3 miles | 15 | |
| Guler | 13.3 miles | 15 | |
| Woodruff Mill | 13.4 miles | 14 | |
| Gilmer | 13.8 miles | 15 | |
| Appleton | 14.3 miles | 15 | |
| Klickitat | 15.7 miles | 14 |
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 Glenwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5569429 | 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 1520005. 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.





