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Ilwaco, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Long Beach-North Beach Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98624. It stands on Wallacut River. The Survey maps it on the Cape Disappointment quadrangle. 1,087 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Ilwaco within Pacific County

On record in Ilwaco

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

Ilwaco grew from 936 to 1,087 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
2010936
20201,087+151 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Ilwaco between 1992 and 2019, burning about 36 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
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Natural1

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 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
10 September 1993Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPIONEER
7 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 August 2002Debris 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 Pacific County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Ilwaco: 6 occurrences, 6 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Platinum, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, Metal. 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
Beards Hollow PlacerIron, Platinum, Titanium, Metal, ZirconiumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Beards Hollow PlacerPlatinum, Zirconium, Titanium, IronOccurrence
Fort CanbyGold, Platinum, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, MetalOccurrenceBeach Placer
Fort Canby PlacerGold, Titanium, IronProspect
Sand Island PlacerGold, Iron, TitaniumOccurrence
O'Meara QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
FenderSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Long BeachSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Nahcotta PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pacific County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ilwaco in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2018Thunderstorm WindIlwaco-Weather station on Cape Disappointment recorded wind gusts up to 67 mph.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindIlwaco-Thunderstorms produced strong winds on and off through the morning, with the strongest gust of 63 mph at Cape Disappointment.

Every storm recorded in Pacific 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
Oceanview1.1 miles11
Holman1.4 miles11
Fort Canby1.9 miles11
Pacific City (historical)1.9 miles11
Seaview1.9 miles11
Moores Corner2.6 miles11
Long Beach3.0 miles11
Stringtown3.4 miles17

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 IlwacoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1207455The 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 1521144. 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.