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Index, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Sultan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98256. It stands on Bridal Veil Creek. The Survey maps it on the Index quadrangle. 155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

Index within Snohomish County

On record in Index

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

Index fell from 178 to 155 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
2010178
2020155-23 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 18 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.

What the histories say of this town

4,131 words

2 chapters about Index from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
Snohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, FutureSnohomish County Washington, Past Achievements, Present Status, Future Possibilities (1914)431 words
HistoryHistory of Snohomish County, Washington, Volume I (1926)3,700 words

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 Index between 1992 and 2020, burning about 304 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 ceremony29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2012Natural1.9 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPOWERLINE
4 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestLAKE SERENE
3 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestBELL
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Region-Department of Natural ResourcesSUNSET FALLS
12 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 August 2009Naturalunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestLOWER TROUT
5 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestSKOOKUM TRAILHEAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 66 workings within 5 miles of Index: 26 past producers, 22 occurrences, 13 prospects, 3 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Silver, 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
Barclay CreekGarnetOccurrence
Baring Iron DepositIron, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Copper BelleCopper, Gold, Silver, TungstenPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Hematite, Magnetite
Copper BelleSilver, Gold, Copper, TungstenPast Producer1910, 1911
Ellis QuarryGranitePast Producer
Gunn Peak ProspectGold, Silver, CopperOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite
Index Bornite ProspectSilver, CopperOccurrenceBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite
Lake Serene MineCopper, Silver, Iron, GoldProducerBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Martin, Gail LCopper, TungstenUnknown
Proctor Creek PitLimestone, DimensionProducer

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Index in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 1 debris flow, 1 flood. 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 2021FloodIndex$329,000The Snohomish, Skykomish, and Stillaguamish Rivers exceeded flood stage. Urban and small stream flooding also occurred. Heavy rain caused some landslides.
January 2014Debris FlowIndex$2,000Scores of residents near Index remained without power and stranded by a massive landslide that blocks the access road to their homes and prevents emergency crews from reaching the area in Snohomish County.

Every storm recorded in Snohomish 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
Halford3.5 miles18
Reiter4.3 miles17
May Creek6.4 miles17
Galena7.7 miles17
Gold Bar7.9 miles17
Startup10.3 miles17
North Sultan14.0 miles15
Sultan14.2 miles20

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 IndexAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1507629The 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 1521157. 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.