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Hoodsport, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the West Mason census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98548. It stands on Finch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hoodsport quadrangle. 419 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Hoodsport within Mason County

On record in Hoodsport

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hoodsport grew from 376 to 419 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
2010376
2020419+43 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Hoodsport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Other causes3
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEVEROAU
7 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCUSHMAN
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDON LAKE
3 September 1992Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2006Arson/incendiarism61 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEWATTO II

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hoodsport: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Tuff QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Beekman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
StewartSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Will PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoodsport in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 1999: 2 heavy rain. 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
March 1999Heavy RainHoodsport$5,000,000no account filed
April 1996Heavy RainHoodsport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Potlatch2.1 miles10
Union4.1 miles10
Lilliwaup4.2 miles10
Dewatto4.8 miles10
Tahuya5.0 miles10
Skokomish5.1 miles11
Mohrweis8.2 miles11
Ayock8.2 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 HoodsportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474745The 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 1520897. 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.