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Naches, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1961. It stands in the Northwest Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98937. The Survey maps it on the Naches quadrangle. 1,084 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,473 feet above sea level.

Naches within Yakima County

On record in Naches

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Naches grew from 795 to 1,084 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
2010795
20201,084+289 (+36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Naches between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,787 acres in total. 4 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 ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
31 August 2002Recreation and ceremony15 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 August 1998Recreation and ceremony200 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 August 2013Natural4.5 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestBEAR
20 August 1993Natural80 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 August 2005Debris and open burning9.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNEW OLD NACHES
8 July 1999Equipment and vehicle use80 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 July 1992Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 July 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Naches: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Stephens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clarke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
S. Naches PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tim PondsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yakima County

Storms near this place

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naches in 13 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 13 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2020FloodNaches-Naches near Naches- Flood stage is 17.8 feet. The river rose above flood stage on February 7, 4 am, crested at 18.6 feet on February 7th at 130 pm, then fell below flood stage on February 8th at 430 am. Minor flooding was observed in low areas along river.
May 2017FloodNaches-On May 30th, warm temperatures lead to increased snow melt with the Naches River rising briefly to the flood stage of 17.8 feet.
May 2017FloodNaches-Increased snow melt resulted in minor flooding of the Naches River near Naches. On May 5th the river crested at 18.25 feet, flood stage is 17.8 feet.
June 2012FloodNaches-The Yakima River at Naches crested on June 18 11 pm at 16.64 feet. Flood stage is 16.0 feet.
June 2012FloodNaches-The Yakima River at Naches crested at 16.44 feet at 5:15 pm on June 6th. Flood stage is 16.0 feet.
April 2012FloodNaches-The Naches River at Naches crested at 18.27 feet on April 25 at 1 am. Flood stage is 17.8 feet.
April 2011FloodNaches-Continuing from March 31, the river gage at Naches crested at .2 feet above flood stage.
January 2009FloodNaches-Naches River was .9 foot above flood stage.
May 2009FloodNaches-The Naches River continued slightly above flood stage through the end of May. No damage was reported.
May 2009FloodNaches-The Naches River at Naches crested at 17.13 feet on May 19 between 8:45 am PST and 11:30 am PST.
March 2007FloodNaches-Naches River at Naches crested at 17.84 feet with flood stage at 17 feet. Yakima River at Parker crested at 10.87 feet with flood stage at 10 feet.
May 2006FloodNaches-Minor flooding and bank erosion along the Naches River near Naches due to rapid snowmelt caused by record warm temperatures. River crested at 17.9 feet on 05/21/06.
November 2006FloodNaches-The Naches River near Naches rose above the flood stage of 17 feet on the 6th and crested at 18.8 feet on the 8th, falling back below flood stage on the 8th.

Every storm recorded in Yakima 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
Tasker3.4 miles14
Tieton3.6 miles14
Holtzinger3.8 miles14
Cowiche4.3 miles14
Eschbach5.6 miles14
Gleed6.8 miles16
Weikel7.0 miles14
Tietonview Grange9.5 miles15

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 NachesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q658219The 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 1512494. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.