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Lacey, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Olympia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98503. It lies near Woods Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Lacey quadrangle. 53,526 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 203 feet above sea level.

Lacey within Thurston County

On record in Lacey

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

Lacey grew from 42,393 to 53,526 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
201042,393
202053,526+11,133 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

238 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Lacey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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/undetermined62
Recreation and ceremony52
Debris and open burning39
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Arson/incendiarism16
Fireworks15
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking9
Other causes2
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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersI-5 TRAIL SE
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSEVEN OAKS
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMALL FIRE
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Lacey: 12 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Mottman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ames Huntly Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Capitol Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fleetwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gleason Kearney PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lacey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
O & K Trucking Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Olympia Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Steilacoom QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tom Martin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lacey in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2006: 2 lightning, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2002LightningLacey1 hurtA 17 year old was struck by lightning while he was working outside. He sustained minor burns, some hearing loss and a headache. The tree next to him was stripped of its bark.
September 2002LightningLacey$20,000Lightning struck a garage, a DOT building and a tree in the Olympia area. The garage, filled with antiques, was destroyed. The DOT building lost power and the tree was split.
January 2006Tornado (F0)Lacey-On the ground for less than 2 minutes.
June 2005Funnel CloudLacey-A funnel cloud descended 1/3 way to ground.

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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
Tanglewilde2.5 miles18
Thompson Place2.6 miles18
Union Mill2.6 miles18
Mushroom Corner3.2 miles18
South Bay3.4 miles18
Olympia4.1 miles18
Kellys Korner4.5 miles21
East Olympia4.6 miles21

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 LaceyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970086The 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 1512362. 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.