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Nile, Washington

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Northwest Yakima census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98937. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nile quadrangle. 146 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,005 feet above sea level.

Nile within Yakima County

Population over time

2 figures

Nile grew from 140 to 146 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
2010140
2020146+6 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Nile between 1992 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 7 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 ceremony50
Natural25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Other causes3
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCOWPUNCHER 2
8 September 2012Natural2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBOX SPRING
8 September 1996Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National Forest254 ROAD
6 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestDEVILS TABLE
5 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestNILE CREEK
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters800
27 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHOOVER
27 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestDEVIL'S FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Nile: 4 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
Simmons PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bond PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stevens PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Pinecliff6.7 miles18
Wenas9.5 miles14
Cliffdell11.1 miles18
Tieton12.7 miles14
Tasker13.5 miles14
Naches14.1 miles14
Rimrock14.6 miles19
Holtzinger15.2 miles14

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 NileAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6043065The 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 1523659. 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.