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McCleary, Washington

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the McCleary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98557. The Survey maps it on the McCleary quadrangle. 1,997 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

McCleary within Grays Harbor County

On record in McCleary

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

Population over time

2 figures

McCleary grew from 1,653 to 1,997 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
20101,653
20201,997+344 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of McCleary between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1998Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersA-LINE
5 August 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMOX FIRE
21 August 2006Debris 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 Grays Harbor 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 McCleary: 11 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
ElmaIron, Titanium, MetalPast ProducerFossil Placer
ElmaIron, Titanium, MetalOccurrenceFossil Placer
Cdc Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
County Line QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mccleary # 2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smiley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stuck PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor 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
Hillgrove0.9 miles9
McCleary Junction1.1 miles9
Sine1.5 miles9
Garden City2.0 miles9
Rayville2.8 miles9
Greenwood7.2 miles15
Malone7.3 miles15
Porter8.2 miles15

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 McClearyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q771582The 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 1506537. 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.