Neilton, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Neilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98566. It stands on South Fork Boulder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Quinault West quadrangle. 299 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

Neilton within Grays Harbor County

Population over time

3 figures

Neilton fell from 345 to 299 between 2000 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
2000	345
2010	315	-30 (-9%)
2020	299	-16 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1921 USGS Quinault Lake quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Quinault Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
1988 USGS Shelton quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Lake Quinault West quadrangle1:24000
1995 USGS Lake Quinault West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Neilton between 1992 and 2016, burning about 5 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
27 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	GATTON CREEK SNAG
25 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Quinault Indian Nations	FIREWOOD
14 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	not named
13 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 August 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	OPEN LAKE
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	QUINAULT RIDGE
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	SOUTH SHORE
4 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	2257 DEBRIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Neilton: 20 occurrences, 16 past producers, 12 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Elma	Iron, Titanium	Prospect
Egge Claims	Manganese, Iron	Past Producer	Bementite
Lizard Claim	Manganese, Iron	Past Producer	1916
Skunk Creek No. 19 Claim	Manganese, Iron	Past Producer	Bementite, Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Pyrolusite, Rhodonite
Fishel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Quinault Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Pit Ps-H-128	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neilton in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Neilton	-	A Quinault Indian Nation Fire official reported that at approximately 5:20 AM he came upon 10 downed trees (1-2.5 feet in diameter) across Moclips Highway (S-26) at approximately mile marker 18. Photographs were provided of the downed trees. Subsequent reports and imagery from a trained spotter identified additional damage approximately 0.5 miles to the northeast across a forest service road. No injuries or other impacts were reported.\|\|An evaluation of the photographic evidence from local officials and the trained spotter combined with radar signatures from the event are consistent with a brief tornado. Based on the location and path length the tornado most likely touched down at 4:40am and lasted for less than 2 minutes, traveling 0.50 miles with a maximum width of 30 yards. The degree of tree damage is consistent with peak winds of approximately 90 MPH, rating it as an EF-1 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita scale.

Every storm recorded in Grays Harbor 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Amanda Park	3.5 miles	11
Quinault	4.2 miles	10
Norwood	6.6 miles	10
Weatherwax	13.0 miles	11
Humptulips	13.1 miles	10
Grisdale	14.7 miles	11
Axford	15.5 miles	10
Onslow	20.8 miles	13

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 Neilton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1504929	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 1523609. 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.