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Klickitat, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Dallesport-Klickitat census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98628. It lies near Snyder Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Klickitat quadrangle. 320 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Klickitat within Klickitat County

Population over time

3 figures

Klickitat fell from 417 to 320 between 2000 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
2000417
2010362-55 (-13%)
2020320-42 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Klickitat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,420 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony13
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism8
Fireworks7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGifford Pinchot National Forest720
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSAW
30 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 1994Arson/incendiarism36 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKLICKITAT RIVER
14 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.8 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMORSE ROAD
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
11 September 2003Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Klickitat: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Klickitat 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
Klickitat Springs1.9 miles13
Woodruff Mill2.8 miles14
Wahkiacus2.9 miles13
Pitt3.0 miles14
Swale5.9 miles13
Appleton6.3 miles15
Klickitat Heights9.4 miles15
Gooseneck9.5 miles16

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 KlickitatAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1508220The 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 1521721. 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.