Long Beach, Washington
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Long Beach-North Beach Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98631. The Survey maps it on the Cape Disappointment quadrangle. 1,688 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLong Beach grew from 1,392 to 1,688 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,392 | |
| 2020 | 1,688 | +296 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1938 USGS Cape Disappointment quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Cape Disappointment quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Copalis Beach quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Ilwaco quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
32 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Long Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 burning | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pacific Cascade Region-DNR | BIRCH RD |
| 7 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 21 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 18 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 10 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 9 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PIONEER |
| 7 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Long Beach: 6 past producers, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Platinum, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, Metal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beards Hollow Placer | Iron, Platinum, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium | Occurrence | Beach Placer | |
| Beards Hollow Placer | Platinum, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Fort Canby | Gold, Platinum, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, Metal | Occurrence | Beach Placer | |
| O'Meara Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Fender | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Long Beach | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Nahcotta Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Beach in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Beach | - | Gusty winds were reported at Long Beach, Washington with a peak gust of 55 kts. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moores Corner | 0.8 miles | 11 | |
| Seaview | 1.2 miles | 11 | |
| Breakers | 1.3 miles | 11 | |
| Holman | 1.8 miles | 11 | |
| Oceanview | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Ilwaco | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Oceanside | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Pacific City (historical) | 4.7 miles | 11 |
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 Long Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1008919 | The 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 1512400. 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.






