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Grayland, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Westport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98547. The Survey maps it on the Grayland quadrangle. 847 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 26 feet above sea level.

Grayland within Grays Harbor County

Population over time

3 figures

Grayland fell from 1,002 to 847 between 2000 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
20001,002
2010953-49 (-5%)
2020847-106 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Grayland between 1992 and 2014, burning about 96 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Fireworks9
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
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
14 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
10 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use47 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTWIN HARBORS
12 August 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 July 1996Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 July 1996Fireworks1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Grayland: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Laidlow3.7 miles11
Cohassett Beach4.1 miles11
Bay City4.2 miles11
Cohassett4.4 miles11
Westport5.5 miles12
Ocosta6.2 miles12
Westhaven6.9 miles12
Markham8.3 miles12

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 GraylandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1504780The 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 1505246. 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.