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Marrowstone, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Oak Bay-Port Ludlow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98358. It stands on Marrowstone Island. The Survey maps it on the Nordland quadrangle. 995 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Marrowstone within Jefferson County

On record in Marrowstone

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Marrowstone grew from 844 to 995 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
2010844
2020995+151 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Marrowstone between 1994 and 2017, burning about 15 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
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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
4 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 September 1997Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
9 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersISLAND SMOKE
26 August 2009Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersELKINS PIT
25 August 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Marrowstone: 10 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Iron. 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
Chimacum ValleyIronProspect
IrondaleDiatomiteOccurrence
Chimacum PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crown Zellerbach Hadlock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elkins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hadlock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hunt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Irondale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Puget Sound Surfacers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Nordland0.2 miles12
Fort Flagler3.0 miles12
Port Hadlock3.9 miles11
Irondale4.5 miles11
Chimacum5.1 miles11
Port Townsend5.8 miles11
Glen Cove6.7 miles11
Four Corners6.9 miles11

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 MarrowstoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1509184The 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 1852949. 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.