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Home, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Key Peninsula-Anderson Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98349. The Survey maps it on the Vaughn quadrangle. 1,543 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Home within Pierce County

On record in Home

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Home grew from 1,377 to 1,543 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
20101,377
20201,543+166 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Home between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2012Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMCMICKEN
15 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHARSTENE ISLAND
17 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWIND JAMMER
13 July 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersECKERT ROAD
12 July 2001Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCUTTS ISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Home: 1 past producer. 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
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Lakebay1.3 miles13
Lake Bay2.1 miles14
Herron2.6 miles13
Forest Beach4.2 miles14
Longbranch4.6 miles15
Key Center4.6 miles14
Vaughn4.8 miles13
Sunrise Beach4.8 miles14

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 HomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5887905The 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 1512307. 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.