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McKenna, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Roy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98580. The Survey maps it on the McKenna quadrangle. 678 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 308 feet above sea level.

McKenna within Pierce County

Population over time

2 figures

McKenna fell from 716 to 678 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
2010716
2020678-38 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of McKenna between 1992 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Recreation and ceremony19
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks6
Smoking5
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2

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 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2003Natural1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMOUNTAIN VIEW
5 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCREEK MILL
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarism14 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of McKenna: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Olsen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Price PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Reichein PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Yelm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Mock City3.7 miles19
Roy4.9 miles15
Hillhurst10.8 miles15
Johnsons Corner11.0 miles18
Rocky Ridge11.5 miles24
Elk Plain11.7 miles26
Hillside11.8 miles15
DuPont11.9 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 McKennaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11038593The 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 1512441. 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.