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Lake Stevens, Washington

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lake Stevens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98258. It stands on Catherine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Stevens quadrangle. 35,630 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 217 feet above sea level.

Lake Stevens within Snohomish County

On record in Lake Stevens

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

Lake Stevens grew from 28,069 to 35,630 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
201028,069
202035,630+7,561 (+27%)

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.

What the histories say of this town

802 words

1 chapter about Lake Stevens from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
HistoryHistory of Snohomish County, Washington, Volume I (1926)802 words

Fires near this place

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Lake Stevens between 1992 and 2019, burning about 26 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
Debris and open burning13
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 2003Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters93RD DRIVE
17 September 1998Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 September 2017Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPENCER ISLAND
10 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCOYOTE
27 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 August 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington 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 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Lake Stevens: 14 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Dimension. 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
Twitchell QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Clayburn PitClayProducer
Ne EverettClayPast Producer
Getchell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hartford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hartford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Machias PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Matheson Rivers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pilchuck River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Stevens in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 1997Funnel CloudLake Stevens-A funnel cloud was detected on radar and observed by a spotter northeast of Lake Stevens. Showers and thunderstorms dropped a record 1.41 inches of rain at Seatac airport for 24 hours on this day.

Every storm 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
Hartford0.7 miles18
Hyland1.9 miles18
Machias2.5 miles26
West Lake Stevens2.5 miles26
Lochsloy3.0 miles18
Getchell4.3 miles18
Sobey4.5 miles18
Cavalero Corner4.6 miles25

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 StevensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1507935The 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 1512695. 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.