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Orting, Washington

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Puyallup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98360. It stands on Voight Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orting quadrangle. 9,041 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

Orting within Pierce County

On record in Orting

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Orting grew from 6,746 to 9,041 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
20106,746
20209,041+2,295 (+34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 29 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Orting between 1992 and 2020, burning about 384 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony15
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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/undetermined275 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters244TH COMMAND
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersORTING
7 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSOUTH PRAIRIE CREEK
6 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVOIGHT CREEK
6 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCASCADIA
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters186TH
29 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Orting: 10 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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
Hicks PitFlagstonePast Producer
McmillanCalciumPast Producer
Tacoma Silver Mine #42Lead, Gold, SilverProspect
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sumner PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thun Field Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orting in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2007Funnel CloudOrting-A funnel cloud, which lasted less than a minute, was spotted near Orting.

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Croker2.5 miles29
McMillin3.4 miles28
Prairie Ridge4.0 miles28
Thrift4.0 miles24
Rhododendron Park4.4 miles28
South Hill4.6 miles26
Ponderosa Estates5.1 miles28
Alderton5.1 miles28

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 OrtingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515932The 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 1512539. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.