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Oakville, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Oakville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98568. It stands on Harris Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oakville quadrangle. 715 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

Oakville within Grays Harbor County

Population over time

2 figures

Oakville grew from 684 to 715 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
2010684
2020715+31 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

60 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Oakville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresPacific Cascade Region-DNRWILLIAMS CREEK
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCONSTRUCTION
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersOAKVILLE
2 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHUNTER RD
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersD-LINE BRIDGE INCIDENT
15 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHAMMER DOWN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Oakville: 20 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Oakville PitStonePast Producer
Gate QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gate QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ames PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bert Sutton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Independence PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oakville ItSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Balch1.9 miles14
Cedarville2.9 miles15
Chehalis Village4.2 miles14
Lankner6.9 miles15
Porter8.0 miles15
Rony9.5 miles15
Malone9.7 miles15
Greenwood12.2 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 OakvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1510905The 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 1507136. 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.