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Leavenworth, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Leavenworth-Lake Wenatchee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98826. It stands on Chumstick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leavenworth quadrangle. 2,263 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,171 feet above sea level.

Leavenworth within Chelan County

On record in Leavenworth

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Leavenworth grew from 1,965 to 2,263 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
20101,965
20202,263+298 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Leavenworth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,040 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 2 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
Natural41
Recreation and ceremony18
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2012Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestPOSEY
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBOUNDARY BUTTE
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestICICLE RIDGE A
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National Forestnot named
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestTUMWATER
13 September 2014Recreation and ceremony25 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestTUMWATER
13 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestDERBY
9 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chelan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Leavenworth: 10 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Gold, Asbestos. 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
Black RepublicanNiobium (Columbium), Cobalt, NickelUnknown
LeavenworthClayPast Producer
Leavenworth PlacerPlatinumOccurrenceStream Placer
Redmon PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tumwater CanyonMica, Talc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Iclce CreekAsbestosProspect
LeavenworthSilicaProspect
LeavenworthSand and Gravel, Construction, SilicaProspect
Leavenworth PlacerGoldOccurrence
Mill CreekAsbestosOccurrence

Every working recorded in Chelan County

Storms near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leavenworth in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 4 flood, 2 flash flood, 2 debris flow, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 2013Flash FloodLeavenworth$40,000Flash flooding and debris on Fourth of July Creek above Icicle Creek closed off National Park Road 76. Many campers were stranded above where the flash flood occurred until the road was cleared of debris. Damage costs were estimated.
January 2021Debris FlowLeavenworth$20,000A hillside along State Route 2 began slowly sliding, striking the Department of Transportation guardrail, and partially blocked the eastbound lane. The mudslide was triggered by already saturated soil and wet snow.
March 2011FloodLeavenworth$10,000A blocked railroad culvert resulted in water flooding out onto Chumstick Highway near Freund Canyon about 1.3 miles north of Leavenworth. The water was about a foot deep across the road for a brief period resulting in its closure. Parts of the road were damaged by the flowing water.
January 2015FloodLeavenworth-Newspaper posted two photos and narrative on their Facebook page showing a structure used to store rafting equipment being flooded. Comments to the post note that the flooding is from rain, slush and melting snow and ice as the structure is in a natural depression near a mountain.
December 2015Debris FlowLeavenworth-An emergency manager reported a mudslide on SR-2 just west of Leavenworth, WA. The road was closed and the flow was estimated at 10 feet deep.
November 2006FloodLeavenworth-Very heavy rain led to flooding on Icicle Creek near Icicle Island.
November 2006FloodLeavenworth-Very heavy rain led to rapid rises on the Wenatchee River, with major flooding of fields on East Leavenworth Road.
January 2009Heavy RainLeavenworth-no account filed
June 2006Flash FloodLeavenworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chelan 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
Peshastin3.5 miles17
Chumstick6.5 miles17
Dryden6.5 miles17
Chiwaukum7.6 miles17
Winton10.5 miles17
Cashmere11.4 miles13
Plain11.5 miles17
Coles Corner11.8 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 LeavenworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1025813The 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 1521981. 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.