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Lake Ketchum, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Stanwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98292. The Survey maps it on the Conway quadrangle. 1,268 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Lake Ketchum within Snohomish County

Population over time

3 figures

Lake Ketchum grew from 1,173 to 1,268 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
20001,173
2010930-243 (-21%)
20201,268+338 (+36%)

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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Lake Ketchum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPIONEER
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters36TH AVE
11 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTANWOOD MULCH
29 August 1993Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish 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 Lake Ketchum: 8 past producers, 5 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. 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
FlorenceDiatomiteOccurrence
ConwaySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Dept. of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Dept. of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East Stanwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ellestad, VirgilSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Georgia- Pacific Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Georgia-Pacific Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake Ketchum PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Snohomish 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
North Stanwood1.8 miles19
East Stanwood2.8 miles17
Stanwood3.3 miles17
Florence4.5 miles17
Silvana Terraces6.5 miles17
Norman6.7 miles17
Silvana7.4 miles17
Warm Beach7.9 miles17

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 Lake KetchumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1508412The 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 1852945. 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.