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Goldendale, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Goldendale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98620. It stands on Bloodgood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Goldendale quadrangle. 3,453 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,637 feet above sea level.

Goldendale within Klickitat County

On record in Goldendale

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Goldendale grew from 3,407 to 3,453 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
20103,407
20203,453+46 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Goldendale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use21
Debris and open burning20
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony9
Other causes6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersORCHARD HEIGHTS
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use5.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHARPER SPRINGS
29 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEAST PONDEROSA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Goldendale: 9 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. 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
GoldendaleClayPast Producer
Red Rock QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Riley PitStonePast Producer
Twin ButtesMagnesiteOccurrence
Cunningham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pipeline Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gorge Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stultz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Klickitat County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goldendale in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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
August 2004LightningGoldendale$10,000no account filed
August 2019HailGoldendale-Heavy rainfall accompanied the hail with totals of 2.5 to 3 inches in the same location.
July 1999HailGoldendale-A farmer located 4 miles south of Satus Pass reported crop damage due to hail as well as some erosion from heavy rain. Lightning also damaged a sprinkler pump.

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
Blockhouse6.3 miles9
Centerville6.4 miles9
Firwood9.0 miles9
Maryhill9.2 miles10
Warwick11.6 miles10
Pleasant Valley12.2 miles10
Towal12.5 miles10
Gooseneck13.2 miles16

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 GoldendaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q999955The 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 1505168. 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.