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Greenwater, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 98022. The Survey maps it on the Greenwater quadrangle. 95 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,699 feet above sea level.

Greenwater within Pierce County

Population over time

3 figures

Greenwater grew from 91 to 95 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
200091
201067-24 (-26%)
202095+28 (+42%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Greenwater between 1992 and 2018, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Natural1

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 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestFOSS CREEK
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestKAREN'S
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestRALPH
5 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestLABOR DAY
23 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestEXCHANGE
2 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersIMON
18 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestRV
10 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest210 SPUR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Greenwater: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Bentonite, Perlite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
DivideBentoniteOccurrence
Sweet Point QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
White River GPerliteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Snoquera9.3 miles13
Sunrise16.6 miles21
Buckley20.0 miles29
Burnett21.2 miles29
Wilkeson21.2 miles26
Upper Fairfax21.3 miles26
Fairfax21.8 miles26
Carbonado21.9 miles26

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 GreenwaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q195331The 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 1520340. 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.