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Machias, Washington

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lake Stevens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98290. It stands on Dubuque Creek. The Survey maps it on the Snohomish quadrangle. 1,264 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Machias within Snohomish County

Population over time

3 figures

Machias grew from 1,015 to 1,264 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
20001,015
20101,178+163 (+16%)
20201,264+86 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Machias between 1992 and 2019, burning about 39 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 burning14
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
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
10 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH CARPENTER RD
27 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 August 1994Smoking3.0 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 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Machias: 20 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
SnohomishClayPast 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
Pilchuck River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Lake Stevens2.5 miles18
Hartford2.8 miles18
West Lake Stevens3.1 miles26
Three Lakes3.1 miles26
Hyland3.2 miles18
Jamison Corner3.7 miles26
Forest Glade3.9 miles16
Fobes Hill4.5 miles26

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 MachiasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964649The 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 1512418. 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.