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Grand Mound, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Thurston South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98531. It stands on Grand Mound. The Survey maps it on the Rochester quadrangle. 3,301 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 167 feet above sea level.

Grand Mound within Thurston County

On record in Grand Mound

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

4 figures

Grand Mound grew from 1,394 to 3,301 between 1990 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
19901,394
20001,948+554 (+40%)
20102,981+1,033 (+53%)
20203,301+320 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Grand Mound between 1992 and 2020, burning about 665 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning33
Recreation and ceremony21
Equipment and vehicle use11
Fireworks10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1
Other causes1

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 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHWY 12
8 September 1997Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersINDEPENDENCE RD
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters169TH
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLITTLE SCATTER CREEK
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOAKBERG
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Grand Mound: 24 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Clay, Peat. 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
Bucoda PitClay, PeatPast Producer
CentraliaSilicaOccurrence
Apple Avenue PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bernobich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Centralia Pit & Plant No. 64Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Delaney PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Foron Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Grand Mound Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grand Mound Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston 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
Essex1.1 miles14
Michigan Hill4.8 miles14
Rochester5.1 miles14
Sunnydale5.2 miles20
Helsing Junction6.0 miles14
Mima6.1 miles14
Peterson Corner6.1 miles14
Bucoda7.5 miles21

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 Grand MoundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515664The 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 1512250. 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.