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Hockinson, Washington

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Battle Ground census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98606. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lacamas Creek quadrangle. 6,105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 308 feet above sea level.

Hockinson within Clark County

Population over time

3 figures

Hockinson grew from 5,136 to 6,105 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
20005,136
20104,771-365 (-7%)
20206,105+1,334 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Hockinson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters232ND AVE
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2017Debris and open burning4.9 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters91ST STREET
23 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBAKER CREEK RD.
15 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters229TH
15 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBLACK GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hockinson: 7 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Gold. 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
Brush Prairie PlacerGold, Titanium, IronProspect
Hanna FarmClayProspect
CrawfordStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Finn Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Daybreak PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Homan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tebo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hockinson in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997LightningHockinson$10,000Lightning struck a house in Hockinson and caused a brief fire and damaged home electronics.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Brush Prairie3.2 miles33
Scotton Corner3.3 miles16
Battle Ground3.9 miles16
Kumtux4.0 miles16
Livingston4.0 miles23
Union4.0 miles33
Battle Ground West4.0 miles16
Venersborg4.1 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 HockinsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1509120The 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 1520828. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.