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Hamilton, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Lyman-Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98284. It stands on Cumberland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton quadrangle. 299 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

Hamilton within Skagit County

Population over time

2 figures

Hamilton fell from 301 to 299 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
2010301
2020299-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Hamilton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 ceremony12
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Fireworks4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersO'TOOLE CREEK
24 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSUNSET 17
6 August 2003Natural15 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPINELLI
26 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSHAMOME
20 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Hamilton: 4 unknowns, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences, 3 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Manganese, Manganese, Iron. 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
Hamilton ClaimsIron, Manganese, Aluminum, Sulfur, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1881
Hamilton Iron DepositIron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Manganese, Silica, SulfurProspect1881
Hamilton MillMagnesiteProducer
Last Chance MineGarnetOccurrence
LymanTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
LymanAsbestosPast Producer
EagleManganeseProspect1956
HamiltonIron, ManganeseOccurrence
HamiltonIron, ManganesePast Producer
KatieManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
Hamilton Junction1.0 miles12
Lyman3.9 miles12
Day Creek4.4 miles15
Birdsview6.0 miles17
Minkler6.5 miles12
Cokedale9.7 miles12
Grassmere11.2 miles17
Concrete12.9 miles15

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 HamiltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958611The 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 1520479. 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.