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Ocean Shores, Washington

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Ocean Shores census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98569. The Survey maps it on the Point Brown quadrangle. 6,715 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Ocean Shores within Grays Harbor County

Population over time

2 figures

Ocean Shores grew from 5,569 to 6,715 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
20105,569
20206,715+1,146 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ocean Shores between 1992 and 2018, burning about 60 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 ceremony3
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning1

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
1 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters930
26 August 2002Smoking1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMARINE VIEW 2
10 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDAMON POINT
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 July 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 July 2002Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 June 2004Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLIGHTHOUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ocean Shores: 5 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Iron, Gold, Platinum, Titanium, 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
Grays Harbor Area Illmenite DepositTitaniumOccurrence
Point BrownTitanium, Metal, Zirconium, Iron, Gold, PlatinumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oyhut PlacerGoldOccurrence
Oyhut PlacerGoldOccurrence
Point Brown PlacerGoldOccurrence

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
Oyehut3.0 miles14
Sampson4.7 miles14
Westhaven5.0 miles12
Westport6.4 miles12
Ocean City6.7 miles14
Cohassett7.5 miles11
Cohassett Beach7.6 miles11
Gray Gables8.3 miles13

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 ShoresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q423697The 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 1510681. 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.