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May Creek, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Sultan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98251. It stands on North Fork Wallace River. The Survey maps it on the Gold Bar quadrangle. 849 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 256 feet above sea level.

May Creek within Snohomish County

Population over time

3 figures

May Creek fell from 1,004 to 849 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
20001,004
2010818-186 (-19%)
2020849+31 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of May Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 336 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony25
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Fireworks7
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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 2012Natural1.9 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPOWERLINE
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMAY CREEK
29 September 2012Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKELLOGG LK RD
26 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersREECE RD
20 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestBELL
17 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMAY CLIFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of May Creek: 12 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, Limestone, 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
Copper BelleCopper, Gold, Silver, TungstenPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Hematite, Magnetite
Copper BelleSilver, Gold, Copper, TungstenPast Producer1910, 1911
Gold Bar and ElmoLeadProspect
Martin, Gail LCopper, TungstenUnknown
Red CrossCopper, Gold, SilverUnknown
Red Cross ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Anaconda ProspectCopper, GoldUnknown
Gold BarStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gold Bar PlacerGoldOccurrence
Proctor Creek PitLimestone, DimensionProducer

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
Gold Bar1.6 miles17
Reiter2.1 miles17
Startup4.0 miles17
Index6.4 miles18
North Sultan7.6 miles15
Sultan7.9 miles20
Halford9.8 miles18
Galena12.2 miles17

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 May CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1505015The 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 1852950. 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.