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Moclips, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Ocean Shores census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98562. It stands on Moclips River. The Survey maps it on the Moclips quadrangle. 211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 43 feet above sea level.

Moclips within Grays Harbor County

Population over time

3 figures

Moclips fell from 615 to 211 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
2000615
2010207-408 (-66%)
2020211+4 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Moclips between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 ceremony7
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes2
Smoking2

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 1993Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresQuinault Indian NationsBOB WAYNE
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreQuinault Indian NationsVACUUM
19 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreQuinault Indian NationsROCK FIRE
14 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 August 2003Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 August 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreQuinault Indian NationsDODGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Moclips: 6 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Chromium, REE, Thorium, Platinum, Silver, Gold, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, 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
Moclips PlacerChromium, REE, Thorium, Platinum, Silver, Gold, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, IronOccurrenceBeach Placer
Moclips River PlacerGoldOccurrence
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
ExcelsiorManganeseUnknown1956
Excelsior ClaimManganeseOccurrenceReplacement
ParamontManganeseProspect1956
Paramount ClaimManganeseOccurrence
SuperiorManganeseUnknown1956
Superior ClaimManganeseOccurrence
SupremeManganeseUnknown1956

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
Sunset Beach0.7 miles13
Highland Heights1.4 miles13
Pacific Beach1.9 miles13
Aloha3.4 miles13
Ocean Grove3.8 miles13
Iron Springs5.4 miles13
Onslow6.9 miles13
Carlisle West8.0 miles13

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 MoclipsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1505476The 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 1512471. 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.