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Gold Bar, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Sultan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98251. It stands on Duffey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gold Bar quadrangle. 2,403 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 207 feet above sea level.

Gold Bar within Snohomish County

Population over time

2 figures

Gold Bar grew from 2,075 to 2,403 between 2010 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
20102,075
20202,403+328 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

What the histories say of this town

918 words

1 chapter about Gold Bar from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Snohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, FutureSnohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, Future Possibilities (1914)918 words

Fires near this place

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Gold Bar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 339 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 ceremony26
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Fireworks7
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMAY CREEK
29 September 2012Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKELLOGG LK RD
26 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersREECE RD
24 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBASIN
17 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMAY CLIFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Gold Bar: 11 past producers, 3 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Copper BelleCopper, Gold, Silver, TungstenPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Hematite, Magnetite
Copper BelleSilver, Gold, Copper, TungstenPast Producer1910, 1911
Gold Bar and ElmoLeadProspect
Martin, Gail LCopper, TungstenUnknown
Red Cross ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Anaconda ProspectCopper, GoldUnknown
Gold BarStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gold Bar PlacerGoldOccurrence
Proctor Creek PitLimestone, DimensionProducer
Wallace FallsStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gold Bar in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 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 2009FloodGold Bar$6,500,000More than 50 roads in the county were flooded and about 40 were closed, including Highway 9. Highway 530 was closed in multiple locations. Schools in the Stanwood-Camano district were closed for 2 days. Most of Stanwood flooded, even businesses that hadn't flooded in 25 years. Many people were able to evacuate animals before the waters rose, however dozens had to leave via boat. Nearly 500 homes were flooded. Flood waters blew a hole in a dike on Ebey Island.
December 2023FloodGold Bar-Flooding occurred on the Snohomish River and record flooding occurred on the North Fork, South Fork, and the main stem Stillaguamish River. Water rescues were need in the Stanwood area.

Every storm recorded in Snohomish 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
May Creek1.6 miles17
Startup2.4 miles17
Reiter3.7 miles17
North Sultan6.1 miles15
Sultan6.3 miles20
Index7.9 miles18
Woods Creek10.8 miles16
Halford11.3 miles18

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 Gold BarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1506914The 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 1520077. 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.