North Stanwood, Washington
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Stanwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98292. The Survey maps it on the Conway quadrangle. 137 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 135 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresNorth Stanwood fell from 468 to 137 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 | 468 | |
| 2010 | 149 | -319 (-68%) |
| 2020 | 137 | -12 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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 Conway quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Victoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1975 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Port Townsend quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Conway quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
38 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of North Stanwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PIONEER |
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | 36TH AVE |
| 11 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | STANWOOD MULCH |
| 29 August 1993 | Other causes | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 28 August 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of North Stanwood: 11 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florence | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Dept. of Highways | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| East Stanwood Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ellestad, Virgil | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lake Ketchum Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Schenk Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sunday Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Stanwood | 1.0 miles | 17 | |
| Lake Ketchum | 1.8 miles | 19 | |
| Stanwood | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Florence | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Silvana Terraces | 5.0 miles | 17 | |
| Norman | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Silvana | 6.1 miles | 17 | |
| Warm Beach | 6.2 miles | 17 |
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 North Stanwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1504187 | 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 1852954. 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.








