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.
Population over time
3 figuresGreenwater 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 91 | |
| 2010 | 67 | -24 (-26%) |
| 2020 | 95 | +28 (+42%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1913 USGS Cedar Lake quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Greenwater quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Wenatchee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Snoqualmie Pass quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Greenwater quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
40 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | FOSS CREEK |
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | KAREN'S |
| 6 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | RALPH |
| 5 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | LABOR DAY |
| 23 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | EXCHANGE |
| 2 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | IMON |
| 18 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | RV |
| 10 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | 210 SPUR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Divide | Bentonite | Occurrence | ||
| Sweet Point Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| White River G | Perlite | Occurrence |
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.
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 Greenwater | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q195331 | The 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.




