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Kennewick, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Richland-Kennewick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99336. It lies near Zintel Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Kennewick quadrangle. 83,921 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 407 feet above sea level.

Kennewick within Benton County

On record in Kennewick

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 1 record

Population over time

4 figures

Kennewick grew from 183 to 83,921 between 1900 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
1900183
19101,219+1,036 (+566%)
201073,917
202083,921+10,004 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kennewick between 2004 and 2016, burning about 185 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined185 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeSTATE PATROL
9 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMcNary National Wildlife RefugeOLD POST OFFICE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Kennewick: 11 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. 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
D.O.E. Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cherry Lane QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kennewick PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Matheson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Matheson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pasco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Putnam PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sanders and Young PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kennewick in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2002Thunderstorm WindKennewick$20,000Ham radio operator reported trees blown into cars and homes.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindKennewick$20,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindKennewick$2,000Carport roof was blown off.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindKennewick-Large tree blocking Kennewick Avenue near Newport Street.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindKennewick-Grain bin roof blown over and crushed.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindKennewick-no account filed
July 2002HailKennewick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
South Highlands1.2 miles12
Port of Kennewick1.9 miles12
West Highlands2.3 miles12
Vista3.9 miles12
Island View5.0 miles12
Richland Junction5.0 miles12
Richland Y5.4 miles12
Highland5.6 miles12

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 KennewickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q844033The 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 1512347. 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.