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Ocean Park, Washington

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Long Beach-North Beach Peninsula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98640. It stands on Pauls Slough. The Survey maps it on the Ocean Park quadrangle. 1,814 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Ocean Park within Pacific County

On record in Ocean Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Ocean Park grew from 1,459 to 1,814 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
20001,459
20101,573+114 (+8%)
20201,814+241 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Ocean Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59 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
Fireworks11
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
4 September 1994Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
17 September 1993Smoking1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 August 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
18 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
16 August 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pacific County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ocean Park: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Platinum, Gold, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Gold, Titanium, Iron, 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
NahcottaPlatinum, Gold, Iron, Titanium, Metal, ZirconiumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Ocean Park PlacerGold, Titanium, IronOccurrence
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pacific 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
Nahcotta1.0 miles10
Klipsan Meadows Park1.7 miles10
Klipsan Beach1.7 miles10
Loomis3.8 miles10
Oysterville4.1 miles11
Oceanside5.7 miles10
Hines6.0 miles11
Breakers8.3 miles11

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 Ocean ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1503888The 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 1512524. 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.