Mabton, Washington
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1965. It stands in the Mabton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98935. The Survey maps it on the Mabton East quadrangle. 1,959 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 715 feet above sea level.
On record in Mabton
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
Mabton High Schoollisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresMabton fell from 2,286 to 1,959 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 | 2,286 | |
| 2020 | 1,959 | -327 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1915 USGS Prosser quadrangle1:125000
- 1917 USGS Prosser quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Walla Walla quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mabton East quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Prosser quadrangle1:62500
Fires near this place
20 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Mabton between 1994 and 2019, burning about 451 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Yakama Agency | LOONEY |
| 28 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Yakama Agency | BOUNDARY & PINE |
| 24 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Yakama Agency | HWY 22 / FLORANCE |
| 5 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yakama Agency | SOUTH BOUNDARY |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Yakama Agency | SR 22 M P 22 |
| 31 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 24 acres | Yakama Agency | GLADE |
| 3 July 2000 | Natural | 30 acres | Yakama Agency | BDRY RD 2 |
| 23 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 59 acres | Yakama Agency | GLADE ROAD |
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 Mabton: 10 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mabton Hill | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Keller Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed 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
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mabton in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2004: 2 lightning, 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Lightning | Mabton | $900,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Lightning | Mabton | - | Lightning sparked a wildfire near State Highway 22 just south of Mabton that burned around 300 acres. 30 firefighters from surrounding fire districts contained this fire after 6 hours. |
| August 2004 | Heavy Rain | Mabton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Mabton | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Givens Corner | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Midvale | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Blacks Corner | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Grandview | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Lichty | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Byron | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Emerald | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Sunnyside | 7.5 miles | 12 |
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 Mabton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1514937 | 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 1512417. 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.





