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Lebam, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Willapa Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98577. It stands on Half Moon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lebam quadrangle. 150 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 184 feet above sea level.

Lebam within Pacific County

Population over time

3 figures

Lebam fell from 176 to 150 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
2000176
2010160-16 (-9%)
2020150-10 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

23 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Lebam between 1995 and 2019, burning about 34 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTHE LABAM FIRE
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
11 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 August 2012Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTRAP CREEK
11 August 2003Debris 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 Pacific County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lebam: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Holcomb PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
MenloLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Falls Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Half Moon Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nallpee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pacific County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lebam in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 flood. 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
January 2022FloodLebam$990,000The gauge on the Willapa River near Willapa rose above flood stage of 21.0 feet at 1620PST, crested at 23.3 feet on the 7th at 0345PST (major flood stage is 24.0 feet), then dropped below flood stage on the 7th at 1750PST. As a result, 33 homes have significant damage (combined river and coastal flooding.) Two people were sheltered. Also landslides preventing road entries into the county including five slides on SR 105.

Every storm recorded in Pacific 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
Globe0.7 miles13
Frances2.6 miles13
Nallpee3.4 miles13
Holcomb3.7 miles13
Firdale4.7 miles13
Sutico5.2 miles13
Menlo6.8 miles12
Pluvius7.5 miles14

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 LebamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515049The 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 1512384. 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.