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Morton, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Morton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98356. It stands on Connelly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morton quadrangle. 1,036 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Morton within Lewis County

Population over time

2 figures

Morton fell from 1,126 to 1,036 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
20101,126
20201,036-90 (-8%)

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

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Morton between 1993 and 2019, burning about 169 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 burning13
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks1
Smoking1
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
7 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
21 September 1995Smoking20 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
11 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeDAVIS LAKE FIRE
30 August 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMINERAL HEIGHTS
25 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVIEWPOINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Morton: 14 occurrences, 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Gemstone. 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
Chehalis ValleyGemstoneOccurrence
MortonDiatomiteOccurrence
MortonSilicaOccurrence
Morton A and BSilicaOccurrence
Chesser PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lindberg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
ApexMercuryPast ProducerCinnabar

Every working 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
Nesika5.9 miles14
Riffe (historical)5.9 miles16
Kosmos (historical)6.2 miles15
Alta Vista6.6 miles14
Glenoma6.8 miles16
Swofford7.0 miles16
Bremer7.5 miles16
Ajlune9.0 miles16

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 MortonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1023524The 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 1523383. 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.