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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.

Mount Vernon within Skagit County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mount 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.

YearPeople Change
201031,743
202035,219+3,476 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

29 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony11
Fireworks7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
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
19 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 August 1998Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
26 August 2017Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBIG ROCK
24 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersROTTEN DOG
14 August 2003Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeGUNDERSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 44 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big LakeGraphite, ChromiumOccurrence
BurlingtonAsbestosPast Producer
Cornelius Magnesite,Nickel-Gold DepMagnesite, Nickel, GoldProspect
Mount VernonChromium, Nickel, GoldOccurrence
Mount VernonNickel, Gold, MagnesiteOccurrence
Mount Vernon DepositNickel, Gold, Silver, ChromiumProspect1936
Nookachamp CreekDiatomiteOccurrence
TilonClayPast Producer
Wind RiverGemstoneProducer
BurlingtonStoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Skagit 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
Avon2.8 miles19
Skagit City3.0 miles21
Burlington3.8 miles21
Cedardale4.3 miles19
Baker Heights4.4 miles21
Chuckanut Junction4.5 miles21
Big Lake5.1 miles16
Conway5.6 miles19

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 VernonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q866311The 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.