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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.

Glenwood within Klickitat County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

89 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural25
Recreation and ceremony21
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking2
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreConboy Lake National Wildlife RefugeASPEN
3 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTOWER 2
2 September 1996Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
9 August 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCONBOY
8 August 2006Natural2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresConboy Lake National Wildlife RefugeCONBOY
6 August 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Quarry QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Klickitat County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2011FloodGlenwood-Only minor flooding observed. The Klickitat River gauge at Pitt crested at 10.26, which was 1.26 feet above normal.
June 1998HailGlenwood-A thunderstorm in Glenwood produced 3/4 inch hail and heavy rain.

Every storm recorded in Klickitat 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
Laurel7.0 miles14
Trout Lake12.7 miles15
Snowden13.3 miles15
Guler13.3 miles15
Woodruff Mill13.4 miles14
Gilmer13.8 miles15
Appleton14.3 miles15
Klickitat15.7 miles14

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 GlenwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5569429The 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.