Mount Vernon, Washington
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98274. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 35,219 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 180 feet above sea level.
On record in Mount Vernon
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 2 records
President Hotellisted 2010
Skagit City Schoollisted 1977
Population over time
2 figuresMount Vernon grew from 31,743 to 35,219 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 31,743 | |
| 2020 | 35,219 | +3,476 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1911 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Mt Vernon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
29 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Mount Vernon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 ceremony | 11 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 August 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 27 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 26 August 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.2 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BIG ROCK |
| 24 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 17 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | ROTTEN DOG |
| 14 August 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Fire Marshal's Office | GUNDERSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 44 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Mount Vernon: 17 unknowns, 12 producers, 7 occurrences, 6 past producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Lake | Graphite, Chromium | Occurrence | ||
| Burlington | Asbestos | Past Producer | ||
| Cornelius Magnesite,Nickel-Gold Dep | Magnesite, Nickel, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Mount Vernon | Chromium, Nickel, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Mount Vernon | Nickel, Gold, Magnesite | Occurrence | ||
| Mount Vernon Deposit | Nickel, Gold, Silver, Chromium | Prospect | 1936 | |
| Nookachamp Creek | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Tilon | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Wind River | Gemstone | Producer | ||
| Burlington | Stone | Occurrence |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avon | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Skagit City | 3.0 miles | 21 | |
| Burlington | 3.8 miles | 21 | |
| Cedardale | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Baker Heights | 4.4 miles | 21 | |
| Chuckanut Junction | 4.5 miles | 21 | |
| Big Lake | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Conway | 5.6 miles | 19 |
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 Mount Vernon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q866311 | The 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 1512485. 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.








