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La Conner, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the La Conner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98257. It stands on La Conner Flats. The Survey maps it on the La Conner quadrangle. 965 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 56 feet above sea level.

La Conner within Skagit County

On record in La Conner

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

La Conner grew from 891 to 965 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
2010891
2020965+74 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of La Conner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21 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
Recreation and ceremony16
Debris and open burning5
Fireworks3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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 1993Recreation and ceremony2.3 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOLAHDWH LANE
17 September 2005Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSKAGIT ISLAND CANDLE
15 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEAD MAN
10 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSHORECREST STRIKE
20 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPIT FIRE
11 August 2016Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOPE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of La Conner: 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Nickel, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Arsenic, 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
AlversonNickel, ArsenicOccurrenceRealgar
Alverson DepositStrontium, NickelOccurrence
Dunlap Towing CoStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
QuarryStoneUnknown
Swinomish BayMagnesite, NickelOccurrence
La ConnerNickelProspect
Osberg Const. Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Skagit County Rd. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
Shelter Bay1.1 miles14
Swinomish Village1.6 miles14
Fish Town2.2 miles18
Snee Oosh3.9 miles14
West Shore3.9 miles14
Rexville4.1 miles18
Whitney4.3 miles19
Fredonia4.8 miles19

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 La ConnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1502950The 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 1534592. 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.