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Mossyrock, Washington

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Mossyrock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98564. It lies near Klickitat Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Mossyrock quadrangle. 768 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Mossyrock within Lewis County

Population over time

2 figures

Mossyrock grew from 759 to 768 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
2010759
2020768+9 (+1%)

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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Mossyrock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 189 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBURCHETTE
28 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCHRISTMAS TREE FIRE
21 September 1995Other causes30 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
11 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
10 September 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMOSSYROCK
10 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Mossyrock: 10 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Diatomite. 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
Tilton RiverDiatomiteOccurrence
Coleman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mullaney QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Harmony PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Huntting PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Moore-Davis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mossyrock 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

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
Harmony2.0 miles16
Ajlune2.8 miles16
Winston3.6 miles12
Mayfield4.7 miles17
Bremer5.0 miles16
Swofford5.4 miles16
Silver Creek5.6 miles17
Cinebar5.7 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 MossyrockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1023507The 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 1523412. 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.