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Mineral, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Mineral census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98355. It stands on Roundtop Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mineral quadrangle. 193 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,470 feet above sea level.

Mineral within Lewis County

On record in Mineral

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

Mineral fell from 202 to 193 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
2010202
2020193-9 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Mineral between 1994 and 2019, burning about 51 acres in total. 2 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 ceremony13
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMINERAL HILL
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMINERAL RD
22 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBORDERLINE
16 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersELBE GATE
5 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersALDER LAKE FIRE
22 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOBERTO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mineral: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
LaddMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Ladd MineClayOccurrence
Mineral CreekLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineral in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2015FloodMineral$200,000Flooding on Mineral Creek damaged a segment of the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Carlson1.5 miles16
Morton12.0 miles16
Glenoma14.0 miles16
Kosmos (historical)15.1 miles15
Bremer15.7 miles16
Cispus15.8 miles16
Riffe (historical)17.2 miles16
Randle17.3 miles23

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 MineralAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3314884The 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 1523205. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.