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Kittitas, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1965. It stands in the Kittitas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98934. The Survey maps it on the Kittitas quadrangle. 1,438 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,647 feet above sea level.

Kittitas within Kittitas County

On record in Kittitas

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

2 figures

Kittitas grew from 1,381 to 1,438 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
20101,381
20201,438+57 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Kittitas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
11 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOME STEAD
11 June 1992Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKittitas County Fire DistrictsDENMARK
28 February 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVANTAGE HIGHWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kittitas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Kittitas: 10 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal. 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
Clerf SpringGeothermalProducer
Ellensburg DepositClayPast Producer
Hall Pit C-33Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Johnston CanyonClayPast Producer
Regan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Loter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Olds Pit C-6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schnebly Pit C-28Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kittitas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kittitas in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 2 funnel cloud, 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
August 2019Funnel CloudEast Kittitas-Multiple photos of a funnel cloud via social media. Exact location unknown, but no ground circulation was apparent and no damage reported.
September 2019Funnel CloudEast Kittitas-Several pictures on social media depicting a funnel cloud. No ground circulation confirmed and no damage reported.
June 2013HailKittitas-Along with hail, several tree branches 1.5 inches in diameter were down in the observers year. Power was out as well.

Every storm recorded in Kittitas 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
Regal2.7 miles15
East Kittitas2.8 miles13
Edgemont4.6 miles15
Renslow6.1 miles13
Thrall6.2 miles18
Holmes6.2 miles18
Ellensburg7.0 miles18
Umtanum8.8 miles13

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 KittitasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1023547The 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 1506003. 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.