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North Yelm, Washington

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Olympia East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98597. It lies near Yelm Prairie. The Survey maps it on the McKenna quadrangle. 3,140 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 295 feet above sea level.

North Yelm within Thurston County

Population over time

3 figures

North Yelm grew from 2,793 to 3,140 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.

YearPeople Change
20002,793
20102,906+113 (+4%)
20203,140+234 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of North Yelm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Debris and open burning35
Recreation and ceremony22
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Fireworks9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Natural1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters700
8 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2003Natural1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thurston 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 North Yelm: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Olsen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Price PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Yelm PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston 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
Yelm1.5 miles19
Five Corners2.2 miles19
Four Corners3.5 miles19
Rainier6.9 miles19
Saint Clair7.7 miles17
Nisqually8.3 miles17
Vail8.6 miles18
Kellys Korner8.9 miles21

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 YelmAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1502791The 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 1867625. 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.